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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impale  \Im*pale"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Impaled};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Impaling}.]  [See  2d  {Empale}.] 
  1.  To  pierce  with  a  pale;  to  put  to  death  by  fixing  on  a 
  sharp  stake.  See  {Empale}. 
 
  Then  with  what  life  remains,  impaled,  and  left  To 
  writhe  at  leisure  round  the  bloody  stake.  --Addison. 
 
  2.  To  inclose,  as  with  pales  or  stakes;  to  surround. 
 
  Impale  him  with  your  weapons  round  about  --Shak. 
 
  Impenetrable,  impaled  with  circling  fire.  --Milton. 
 
  3.  (Her.)  To  join  as  two  coats  of  arms  on  one  shield, 
  palewise;  hence  to  join  in  honorable  mention. 
 
  Ordered  the  admission  of  St  Patrick  to  the  same  to 
  be  matched  and  impaled  with  the  blessed  Virgin  in 
  the  honor  thereof.  --Fuller. 




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