dispart
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Etymology
Origin of dispart
1580–90; apparently < Italian dispartire < Latin dispartīre to part, separate, divide, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + partīre to share out, derivative of part- part
Example Sentences
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Nature, at some former period, had occasioned the solid mass to dispart at this place, and had thus afforded access to the summit of the hill.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
What a thing to graft two French provinces to the living body of Germany for fifty years and then dispart, when the blood has learned to flow strongly from the new flesh to the heart!
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen
Gradually the devastations of the awful skies became mellowed down; the wheeling clouds began to dispart, and a gush of heavy drops came pattering from above.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
That Roman, that Judean bond United then dispart no more— Pierce through the veil; the rind beyond Lies hid the legend's deeper lore.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
We swung our way through flying men, Your hand lay fast in mine: We saw the shifting crowd dispart, The level ice-reach shine.
From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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