dispand

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verb

To spread out; to expand.

OriginLatin dispandere →
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Meanings

verbdispand (third-person singular simple present dispands, present participle dispanding, simple past and past participle dispanded)

present singular third person dispands · participle present dispanding · participle past dispanded · past dispanded

  1. obsoleteTo spread out; to expand.

    it doth ferment, and transmute that which was before another thing, now into its own being, substance or nature, and thereby doth dispand its self, and increase into the form and matter by Nature designed

    1681, John Worlidge, Systema agriculturæ

Origin

  1. Latindispandere“to spread out”
  2. Englishdispand

From Latin dispandere (“to spread out”), from dis- + pandere, pansum (“to spread out”).

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dispand,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispand.

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