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dispark, v.|dɪsˈpɑːk| [f. dis- 7 b + park n. Cf. 16th c. F. desparquer (Littré), mod.F. déparquer, also depark (de- prefix II. 2).] trans. To divest of the character of a park; to throw open (park-land), or convert (it) to other uses. Hence disˈparking vbl. n.
[1538Leland Itin. I. 21 The Frith Park sometyme a mighty large thyng, now partely deparked.] 1542–3Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, c. 21 [If] house or houses, parke, chase or forest, happen to be fallen downe, disparked, disforested or destroied. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. i. 23 You haue fed vpon my Seignories, Dis-park'd my Parkes, and fell'd my Forrest Woods. 1664J. Taylor Confirmation §4 This device..disparks the inclosures, and lays all in common. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Yardley, The manor-house stands in an ancient park, now disparked. 1826Scott Woodst. vi, The disparking and destroying of the royal residences of England. 1851Kingsley Yeast ix, Many a shindy have I had here before the chase was disparked. b. transf. and fig. (In quot. 1633 = disimpark, as deer).
1633G. Herbert Temple, Forerunners i, Must they have my brain? must they dispark Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred? 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 92 He thereupon disparks his Seralio, and flyes thence..with Assaph-chawns daughter only in his company. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xvi. 204 The little undecencies and riflings of our souls, the first openings and disparkings of our vertue. Ibid. (1678) 220. |