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verb

Disperse v. t. (past & past part. dispersed; pres. part. dispersing)

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. "The lips of the wise disperse knowledge." "Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse."

To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors. "Dispersed are the glories."

Synonyms: To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse; distribute; deal out; disseminate.

Disperse v. i.

To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.

To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others. "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor."

adjective

Dispersed adj. Scattered.

Dispersed harmony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

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Etymology of 'Dispersed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dispersed" Quotes from Famous Books

... brightness of the eyes, palpitations of the heart, irregular, intermittent, slow, and soft pulse. These symptoms slowly increased, during three or four years, in which time the dropsical collections were repeatedly dispersed. He gradually and quietly died in ...

— Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart • John Collins Warren

... presently heard a baying from the dogs, who had again dispersed to hunt. On nearing the spot whence the noise proceeded, we found them assembled round the trunk of a large tree, in the hollow of which was a large wombat, a most unsighly brute, in appearance partaking somewhat of the bear, the pig, and the badger. An average sized one weighs sixty pounds. The ...

— Forest & Frontiers • G. A. Henty

... at least, have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. [Footnote: Middlemarch, ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... they fashioned in men at their first creation the rudiments of nails.' Or once more, let us reflect on two serious passages in which the order of the world is supposed to find a place in the human soul and to infuse harmony into it. 'The soul, when touching anything that has essence, whether dispersed in parts or undivided, is stirred through all her powers to declare the sameness or difference of that thing and some other; and to what individuals are related, and by what affected, and in what ...

— Timaeus • Plato

... and marched, a smaller, if not a wiser man. Some disjointed words fell from him: "Mimicry is not acting," etc.; and with one bitter, mowing glance at the applauders, circumferens acriter oculos, he vanished in the largest pinch of snuff on record. The rest dispersed more slowly. ...

— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade

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