dispurse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
dispurse (third-person singular simple present dispurses, present participle dispursing, simple past and past participle dispursed)
- Obsolete form of disburse.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- Have I dispurs'd to the garrisons
References[edit]
- “dispurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.