Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sprinkle; scatter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To sprinkle; to scatter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
sprinkle ; toscatter .
Etymologies
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Latin respersus, past participle of respergere; pref. re- re- + spargere to strew, sprinkle.
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Examples
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"He knowed she were goin 'to resperse 'em to her village fren's too, of course.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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