dispart meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

dispart

verb

Etymology From Italian dispartire and its source, Latin dispartire.

Archaic To part, separate.

[…] that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
[…] tenderly unfringe / Your long and lustrous lashes; cluster down / The mantling glory of deep fragrant hair, / Disparted from each forehead, myrtle-wreath'd, […]1861, John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley), The Threshold of Atrides. [In Verse.] By George F. Preston (page 62)

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The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:

Obsolete To divide, divide up, distribute.

Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

dispart

noun

The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

1854-1862, Charles Knight, "DISPART", in English Cyclopaedia On account of the dispart, the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.

A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.

dispart

verb

To furnish with a dispart sight.

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.1583, Richard Lucars, Arte of Shooting:

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