disple

English

Etymology

Apparently a reduced form of discipline.

Verb

disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)

1. (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]

Anagrams

• spiled, diples, lisped, dispel, Spidle, lipsed, pleids, Spilde