disperse
verb (used with object)
to drive or send off in various directions; scatter.
dispersedly
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a word derived from
disperse.
Example Sentences
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The trees grew dispersedly about the sward—great elms and oaks and beeches—and Lancelot was thinking about Guenever with a heavy heart.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
About a mile from Kettley, Dick came to one such break in the plain line of causeway, where the reeds and willows grew dispersedly like little islands and confused the eye.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
But this again had been done "dispersedly," as the Shakespearean stage-direction has it.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
We are to consider him as a Writer, of whom no authentic Manuscript was extant; as a Writer, whose Pieces were dispersedly perform’d on the several Stages then in Being.
From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Hugh G. Dick
And it is aware of itself not as a whole, but dispersedly as individual self-consciousness, starting out dispersedly from every one of the sentient creatures it has called into being.
From God the Invisible King by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
