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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·pur·ple v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empurpled p. pr. & vb. n. Empurpling ]  To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. “The deep empurpled ran.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 empurpled
      adj : excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
            empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech
            embellished with classical quotations"; "an
            over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
             embellished, over-embellished, purple]
      n : a chromatic color between red and blue [syn: purple, purpleness]