Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scatter abroad; disperse; divide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To scatter abroad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
scatter around.
Etymologies
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Old French desparpeillier.
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Examples
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"In good sooth, there is not room for all, howsoever we should squeeze us together; wherefore we must need disparkle [scatter] us.
Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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