disple
English edit
Etymology edit
Apparently a reduced form of discipline.
Verb edit
disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)
- (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]