Meanings
verbdisple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)
present singular third person disples · participle present displing · participle past displed · past displed
- obsoleteTo discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Apparently a reduced form of discipline.
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