dispace
English
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[edit]dispace (third-person singular simple present dispaces, present participle dispacing, simple past and past participle dispaced)
- (obsolete) To wander, to roam, move about.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgil's Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
- The Oke, whose acornes were our foode, before
Thus wise long time he did himselfe dispace
That Ceres seede of mortall men were knowne