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

In Cu. a pen is said to sprent when it scatters the ink over the paper.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

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

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

From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

And as the arch with stars is sprent, I hear balm-dew from firmament Drip richly from their whispering leafage To soothe the fields to a sweet content.

From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand

You of this fatal sign unconscious lift Your branches still, each tree her lofty tent; Still light and twilight drift Between, and lie in wan pools silver sprent.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman