sprent

American  

[sprent] / sprɛnt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. sprinkled.

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Etymology

Origin of sprent

First recorded in 1505–15; past participle of obsolete sprenge “to sprinkle,” Middle English sprengen, Old English sprengan; cognate with Old High German, Middle High German, German sprengen, Old Norse sprengja “to cause to jump”; cf. sprinkle

Example Sentences

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sprent

Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

Mine arms have raised you from the cosmic deep;      Now Fire hath sprent his jewelled drops and sown Marvellous seeds whence beauty's plants shall creep      Season to season weaving, zone to zone.

From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer

I have inhaled love like a garland sprent With morning dew, and fragrant with a scent That set my kisses fluttering over it, As butterflies of silk and velvet flit.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

There are, however, a few words in Sco. that bear a Dan. stamp: sprent, donk and slonk exhibit E.Scand. non-assimilation of nt and nk to tt and kk.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

What then shall hinder but a roscid aire With gentle heat each where be ’sperst and sprent.

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More