disparkle
English
Alternative forms
- disparcle
Etymology
Old French desparpeillier.
Verb
disparkle (third-person singular simple present disparkles, present participle disparkling, simple past and past participle disparkled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To scatter around.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
- It disparcleth the mist and dimnesse that troubleth the eie-sight.
References
- “disparkle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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