dispurse

English

Etymology

Verb

dispurse (third-person singular simple present dispurses, present participle dispursing, simple past and past participle dispursed)

Obsolete form of disburse.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Have I dispurs'd to the garrisons

References

dispurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

prusside, suspired

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