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- adjective Archaic form of
scatter . - verb archaic Past participle of
scatter
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Examples
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And trembling were scatter'd the leaves in the air:
Letter 236 2009
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His well-grown limb the scatter'd daisies press'd,
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After a little Reflection, recollecting my scatter'd Thoughts, I broke out into the following Contemplations:
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'Now from the steep,' midst scatter'd farms and groves,
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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By this time the other two had eat up the pieces of the bean that lay scatter'd on the floor, and having lost their leader, return'd to the temple.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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Vrom friends that do love me, all scatter'd abrode.
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Oh, faded now that lustre, scatter'd far that happy band!
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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_ You of all Men ought to bless Fortune, who still has been indulgent to you on all Occasions; and scatter'd her Favours on you, with as prodigal a Hand as thô you were her sole Care and only Minion.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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Words and Sentences scatter'd up and down his Plays in that Language; and especially from one Scene in _Henry_ the Fifth written wholly in it.
Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe
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With scatter'd flowers, in curving folds entwin'd;
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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