empoisoner

English

Etymology

empoison +‎ -er

Noun

empoisoner (plural empoisoners)

(obsolete) A poisoner.
- 1606, Philemon Holland (translator), Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Historie of Twelve Cæsars:
  For when Seianus perceiued that Drufus, empoisoners escaped vnpunished

References

“empoisoner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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