Definition of "empt"
empt
verb
third-person singular simple present empts, present participle empting, simple past and past participle empted
Quotations
Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c.
1705, A Collection of State Tracts, Publish'd on Occasion of the Late Revolution in 1688, page 653