dispersedadj.
/dɪˈspəːst/poetic./dɪˈspəːsɪd/ a. Scattered or spread about; driven asunder; diffused.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective]
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distract1398
scattereda1425
skailed1488
dispersed1526
dissipate1606
dissipated1610
straggled1641
disjected1647
respersed1649
disparpled1652
disseminated1662
shattered1687
sundered1796
decentralized1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > driven away in all directions
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skailed1488
dispersed1526
disparkled1529
severed1581
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disjected1647
squandered1647
dissipateda1711
dissipate1715
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKviii The mynde that is nat dispersed in the waueryng consideracion of many thynges, at that tyme, whan it shulde be occupyed specially about one thyng.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. C He shal..gather together ye dispersed of Israel.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. H4v Come mournfull dames laie off your brodred locks, And on your shoulders spred dispiearsed haires.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd1v Many worthy personages, that deserue better then dispersed report. View more context for this quotation
1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) iii. 62 The new proof of..valour, recalled her dispersed spirits.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 272 Before William..had brought together his dispersed forces.
b. with reference mainly to situation.
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv The watchemen lay disperst, to take their rest.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 176 You shall praie for all menne, dispersed throughout the face of the yearth.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vi. 140 With a few small Rivers dispers'd up and down.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 150 Both..are plentifully dispersed throughout the creation.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) v. 73 A country of which the population is very unequally dispersed.
c. dispersed phase, dispersed system, = disperse phase n., dispersed system (see disperse v.).
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1915 E. W. Washburn Princ. Physical Chem. xxv. 361 The degree of dispersion of a dispersed phase is usually defined as the ratio of its surface to its volume.
1923 W. Clayton Theory Emulsions 1 That liquid which is broken up into globules is termed the dispersed phase.
1924 A. Findlay Physical Chem. 173 A colloidal sol..consists of finely divided particles (the dispersed phase) distributed throughout a dispersion medium.
1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) III. 279/1 Such dispersed systems can be classified into..(a) mechanical suspensions, (b) colloidal solutions, (c) molecular solutions.
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