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dispunge, v.|dɪˈspʌndʒ|
Also -sponge.
[f. di-, dis- 1 + spunge, sponge v., or L. spongiāre to wipe away with a sponge, f. spongia sponge. In sense there is evident association with expunge, L. expungĕre ‘to prick out, strike out, erase’ (which also appears in modern use to be influenced by ‘sponge’ and understood as ‘to wipe out’); but no contact of sense appears with L. dispungĕre to check off (debits and credits), balance (accounts), weigh, try.]
1. trans. To discharge or pour down as from a squeezed sponge. arch. Hence diˈspunging vbl. n.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. ix. 12 Oh Soueraigne Mistris of true Melancholly, The poysonous dampe of night dispunge vpon me. 1876C. Wells Joseph & His Brethren i. v. 69 Mute and perpendicular Dispungings of the hollow-bosom'd clouds Gutter the fruitful surface of the earth.
†2. To wipe out, blot out, delete, expunge. Obs.
1622Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer Pref., Quarrels..about dispunging some Names out of the Diptychs. a1639Sir H. Wotton Hymn in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 250 Thou..that has dispong'd my score. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §13 They are to be dispunged out of the Census of such who act upon free principles of reason. |