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)

1. (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, →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.