different between emprize vs emprise

English

Noun

emprize (plural emprizes)

1. Obsolete form of emprise.

English

Alternative forms

• emprize

Etymology

From Old French emprise, emprinse, from Late Latin *imprensa, from Latin in- + prehendere (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?a?z/

Noun

emprise (plural emprises)

1. (archaic) An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     noble minds of yore allyed were, / In braue poursuit of cheualrous emprize, / That none did others safety despize […]

   • 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Coplas de Manrique

     the deeds of love and high emprise

   • 1900, William Archer, America To-Day, Observations & Reflections, page 181:

     Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language.

2. (archaic) The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.

Verb

emprise (third-person singular simple present emprises, present participle emprising, simple past and past participle emprised)

1. (obsolete) To undertake.

Anagrams

• empires, epimers, imprese, permies, premies, premise, spireme

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?iz/

Noun

emprise f (plural emprises)

1. expropriation
2. domination, control, influence

Further reading

• “emprise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

emprise f (oblique plural emprises, nominative singular emprise, nominative plural emprises)

1. enterprise; undertaking; activity

Derived terms

• emprisier

Descendants

• ? English: emprise
• French: emprise

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (emprise)