impalm
English
Verb
impalm (third-person singular simple present impalms, present participle impalming, simple past and past participle impalmed)
- (transitive) To grasp or hold in the hand.
- 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
- Nature herself ( whose grasp of time and place
Deals out duration and impalms all space )
References
- “impalm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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