dispart

[ dis-pahrt ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to divide into parts; separate; sunder.

Other Words From

• dis·partment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dispart¹

1580–90; apparently < Italian dispartire < Latin dispartīre to part, separate, divide, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + partīre to share out, derivative of part- part

Example Sentences

The four lovers did right valiantly, that they won praise above all the rest, till evening fell and it was time to dispart.

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His heart travaileth and his body is anguished, and it behooveth the twain to dispart, and the soul to leave the body.

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I—I thought on thee, and yet 't was strange, I could not dispart thee from Stephen in my thought.

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Inquire, I beseech, if he seeketh to dispart from that cell?

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General Millar's simple dispart—a sliding pillar bearing a scale graduated to tangents of degrees for setting the gun by.

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