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動詞

dispread (三人称単数 現在形 dispreads, 現在分詞 dispreading, 過去形および過去分詞形 dispreaded)

1. (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 2:

     In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].

   • 1817 December​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 269:

     her dark hair was dispread,
     Like the pine’s locks upon the lingering blast;
     Over mine eyes its shadowy strings it spread
     Fitfully, and the hills and streams fled fast,
     As o’er their glimmering forms the steed’s broad shadow past; […]

   • 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 213819910:

     The lamp which ultimately was sure to be lifted up to illumine the acts of this secretive race began slowly to dispread its rays …