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Disparple

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Verb
  1. 1
    To scatter, disperse. obsolete

    "‘Alas,’ seyde Sir Gawayne and Sir Gareth, ‘now ys thys realme holy destroyed and myscheved, and the noble felyshyp of the Rounde Table shall be disparbeled.’"

Etymology

From Old French disparpelier, disparpillier et al., apparently from a late prefixed form of Latin papilio (“butterfly”).

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