Meaning of dispread | Babel Free

Definitions

To spread out, to extend.

archaic, rare

Examples

“In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].”

“her dark hair was dispread, Like the pine’s locks upon the lingering blast; Over mine eyes its shadowy strings it spread Fitfully, and the hills and streams fled fast, As o’er their glimmering forms the steed’s broad shadow past; […]”

“The lamp which ultimately was sure to be lifted up to illumine the acts of this secretive race began slowly to dispread its rays …”

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