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Definition of Dispread
1. Verb. Spread abroad or out. "The sun dispread its beams"
Definition of Dispread
1. v. t. To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.
2. v. i. To extend or expand itself.
Definition of Dispread
1. Verb. (archaic rare) To spread out, to extend. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispread
1. to spread out [v -SPREAD, -SPREADING, -SPREADS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispread
Literary usage of Dispread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Higher Education of Women by Emily Davies (1866)
"Clear, without heat, undying, tended by Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent
fane Of her still spirit; locks not wide-dispread, Madonna-wise on either ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Her ivory forehead full of bounty brave, Like a broad table did itself dispread,
For Love his lofty triumphs to engrave, ' And write the battles of his ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To dispread, (dis-spred') tn To extend or expand itself. DISPROOF, (dis-proof)
ni Confutation. DISPROPORTION, (dis-pro-por'-shun) nj Unsuitableness in form ..."
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