† dispressv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To press or force asunder or apart.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate by force or violence
dispress1605
lacerate1713
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 156 Mercurial vapours thickened into Cloudes..and..not able to be dispressed.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 83 The searing of the skinne..doth so seauer and dispresse it, that it wil neuer after meete close together againe.
a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 92 Princes..in no case to endure their supreame authority to be forceably either oppressed or dispressed by their subjects.
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