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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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
The envelope used with the bullet in old rifles.—Muzzle-patch is a projection on the top of the muzzle of some guns, doing away with the effect of dispart in laying.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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
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
So he withdrew him to sleep, for he was sore wearied; but with him went the wolf, and he lay at the king's feet, nor might any man dispart them.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
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