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dispread, disspread, v. arch.|dɪˈsprɛd|
Forms: 6 dispred, despreed, 7– dispread, disspread. pa. tense and pple. dispread; 6 despred, 6–7 dispred, 7– disspred, (pa. pple. erron. 7 dispreden, 8 -edden).
[f. di-, dis- 1 + spread v.]
1. trans. To spread abroad or out; to extend, expand, dilate, open out.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 17 Drawne of fayre Pecocks, that excell in pride, And full of Argus eyes their tayles dispredden wide. 1591― Virg. Gnat 242 Looslie on the grassie greene dispredd. 1596― F.Q. v. xii. 13 Like as a tender Rose..Dispreds the glorie of her leaues gay. 1600Fairfax Tasso i. xl. 9 Baldwine his ensigne faire did next despreed. 1616Sandys Ps. cxx. in Farr S.P. Jas. I, (1848) 80 A vine on wall disspred. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxiv. 51 Dispreden farr, Farre as the Terebinth, my branches are. 1714Solomon's Song in Steele's Poet. Misc. 242 While opening Buds their folded Leaves dis-spread. 1738Wesley Psalms xlv. iv, Dispread the Victory of thy Cross. a1766W. Thompson Hymn to May xxii. 3 Have ye not seen..Striding the clouds a bow dispredden wide? 1838Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets 203 The lady stood beside his head, Smiling a thought, with hair dispread. 1863W. Lancaster Praeterita 64 The disunited, desolated hands Listless of use and nervelessly disspread.
2. intr. (for refl.)
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vii. 40 His face they [his lockes] overgrew, And over all his shoulders did dispred. 1642H. More Song of Soul i. i. xlix, She is the centre from whence all the light Dispreads. 1727–46Thomson Summer 209 Tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky With rapid sway.
Hence diˈspread ppl. a.; diˈspreading vbl. n.; diˈspreader, one who spreads abroad.
1636Fealty Clavis Myst. ii. 15 Joseph of Arimathea..a great dispreader of the Gospel. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. x, Dispread exility Of slyer reasons fails. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 48 Dispredders both of vice and error. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vii. vi. (1821) 361 The dispreadings and distended radiations of his love. 1890Spectator 15 Feb., Prophets descend from the ceiling of the Sistine to become andirons, and their dispread limbs find a motive in the poker and tongs. |