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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"Yes, but you have not yet arrived at the dispart of the compass."
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
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
His heart travaileth and his body is anguished, and it behooveth the twain to dispart, and the soul to leave the body.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
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
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