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
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"Yes, but you have not yet arrived at the dispart of the compass."
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
“Yes, but you have not yet arrived at the dispart of the compass.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
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 Robert Taylor Conrad
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