imparl

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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10
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13
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6

Definition of imparl

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To hold discourse; to parley.
    “These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren.”
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To hold discourse; to parley.
    “These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren.”
  2. To have time before pleading; to obtain a delay for mutual adjustment.
    “c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University Press (2016), →ISBN, page 368 (appendix). And the aforesaid Francis thereupon craveth leave to imparl; and he hath it.”

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Etymology

Ultimately from Old French emparler.

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