dispansion

English

Etymology

From dispand +‎ -sion.

Noun

dispansion (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Act of dispanding, i.e. spreading out, or state of being dispanded.
   • 1814 June, “Review of Maience Waltz, with Variations for the Piano-Forte, by Gelinek”, in The London Review and Literary Journal, page 508:

     A pleasing variety is produced in the third (in the second part particularly), by the dispansion of the leading feature of this variation between the treble and base, beginning at the 9th bar.

   • 1816, E. Samuel, An Historical Account of the British Army, and of the Law Military, […], page 514:

     The Mutiny Acts, since our armies have been more numerous […] and liable, from their magnitude and dispansion, to increased danger, from secret abuses, have furnished new clauses from time to time […]

   • 1843 October, D. H. G——h, “Education”, in The Millennial Harbinger […], volume 7, number 10, page 449:

     Volumes might be written on the necessity of commencing aright, by one who feels that a thorough and Christian reform is needed in the early education of children; one who has himself labored patiently and untiringly for the dispansion of true and just principles; […]

Further reading

• “dispansion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.