empurpled : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: empurpled	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for empurpled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
empurpled adj excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over- embellished story of the fish that got away" Synonym(s): empurpled, over-embellished, purple
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Empurple \Empur"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Empurpled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Empurpling}.] [Pref. em- + purple. Cf. {Impurple}.] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. [bd]The deep empurpled* ran.[b8] --Philips.