dispunct

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpʌŋkt/

Etymology 1

See dispunge.

Verb

dispunct (third-person singular simple present dispuncts, present participle dispuncting, simple past and past participle dispuncted)

1. (obsolete, rare) expunged
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     I desire the Reder then so to take me, as though I did not deal here withal, nor speak of the matter, but utterly to haue pretermitted, and dispuncted the same.

Etymology 2

Adjective

dispunct (comparative more dispunct, superlative most dispunct)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Lacking punctilious respect; discourteous.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     That were dispunct to the ladies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispunct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• punctids