† sparpledadj.
Obsolete.
Dispersed, scattered.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > driven away in all directions
scattereda1425
forscattered1430
sparpled1432
skailed1488
dispersed1526
disparkled1529
severed1581
flittered1582
sparsed1585
discattered1595
disjected1647
squandered1647
dissipateda1711
dissipate1715
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled > sprinkled with something
besprentc1368
sprinkleda1382
sparpled1609
parsemé1814
1432 Wednesdayes Faste (W. de W.) Wherfore his shepe sparpled to folde he can brynge.
1483 Cath. Angl. 352/1 Sparpyllde, sparsus, diuisus.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xliiii. 129 Thou letst us all: as sparpled sheepe, to be devoured quyte.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiii. xcix With the next [stroke] his sparpled braines appeare.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xv. xc Ihoues sparpled Alters licke the blood Of slaughtred Priam.
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