dispart

American  

[dis-pahrt] / dɪsˈpɑrt /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to divide into parts; separate; sunder.

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Other Word Forms

• dispartment noun

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

"Yes, but you have not yet arrived at the dispart of the compass."

From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick

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 bids the lips of thy sleep dispart?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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

A priest himself the blameless rustic rose; Expert the destined victim to dispart In seven just portions, pure of hand and heart.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander