disparkle

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"In good sooth, there is not room for all, howsoever we should squeeze us together; wherefore we must need disparkle [scatter] us.

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  1. To scatter abroad; disperse; divide. When the inhabitoures that dwelled in cottages disparkled thereabouts saw men comming whome they iudged to be theire enemies, … [they] fled to the wilde mountaynes that were full of snowe. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, v. The sect of Libertines began but lately; but as vipers soon multiply into generations, so is their spawn disparkled over all lands. R. Clerke, Sermons (1637), p. 471.

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  1. Also disparcle; a modification of the older and imperfectly understood disparple (q. v.), with reference to sparkle taken in the sense of “scatter.”
 

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