dispersedlyadv.
/dɪˈspəːsɪdli/ In a dispersed or scattered manner; here and there.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adverb]
abroadc1300
sunderly1541
dispersedly1561
scatteringly1570
sparsedly1570
strewingly1578
scatteredly1612
1561 R. Eden in tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation Pref. sig. ¶¶.iii. Whiche perhappes fewe haue done, otherwyse then dispearsedly here and there.
1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 25. §1 The same Vyllages..ly dispersedly.
1663 A. Cowley Of Greatness in Verses & Ess. (1669) 125 The other many inconveniences of grandeur I have spoken of disperstly in severall Chapters.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Apple It's a Tree that may be planted dispersedly about your Ground.
1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 5. 251 Disk convex..dispersedly punctulate.
1870 J. R. Lowell Chaucer in Prose Wks. (1890) III. 325 Their incidents enter dispersedly, as the old stage directions used to say.
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