▪ I. † diˈsparkle, -ˈparcle, v.1 Obs.
Also 5 des-, dyspercle, 5–6 -parcle, -perkle.
[app. a corrupted form of the earlier disparple, by association with spark, sparkle (in ME. sperclen, sperkle, sparklen). (No trace of the corruption appears in French.)]
1. trans. To scatter abroad, drive apart, disperse; = disparple 1.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. iii. vii. 318 Alle..weren disperclid abrode. c 1450 tr. De Imitatione i. iii, A pure, simple & a stable spirit is not disparcled [v.r. disparpled] in many werkes. c 1491 Chast. Goddes Chyld. xxv. 69 Riches maye lityll and lityll multeplie but sodenli they ben dysperklid. 1548 Recorde Urin. Physick ix. (1651) 73 There appear..disparkled abroad in the urine..divers kinds of motes. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 45 It disparcleth the mist and dimnesse that troubleth the eie-sight. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xix. (1632) 943 His Fleet was disparkled. a 1634 R. Clerke Serm. (1637) 471 (L.) Their spawn [is] disparkled over all lands. |
b. intr. (for refl.) To disperse, scatter themselves abroad; = disparple 2.
| 1553 Brende Q. Curtius E iv, Then al hys men for fear disparcled, flynge by such wayes as were open for them. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 78 Not suffering his radiations to disparcle abrode. |
2. trans. To divide, portion out.
| 1538 Leland Itin. I. 93 A Gentilman..whos Landes be now disparkelid by Heires General to divers Men. 1661 Dugdale Monasticon II. 136 In processe the landes of the Oilleys wer disparkelyd. |
Hence diˈsparkled ppl. a., diˈsparkling ppl. a.
| 1529 More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 182/2 Not a company and congregation but a dispercled noumber of only good men. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §30 Hee resolued to recollect his disparkeled troupes. |
▪ II. † diˈsparkle, v.2 Obs. rare.
[f. di- = dis- 1 + sparkle v.]
intr. To sparkle forth.
| 1648 Herrick Nuptiall Song iv, Let thy torch Display the bridegroom in the porch, In his desires More towering, more disparkling then thy fires. |