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 VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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