desart

English

Noun

desart (plural desarts)

1. Obsolete spelling of desert.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎^[1]:

     So thou both here and there immortall art, And everie where through excellent desart.

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 441, lines 252–255:

     See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!

   • 1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5‎^[2]:

     Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.

   • 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte‎^[3]:

     We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness--and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us.

Anagrams

• E-tards, adrets, darest, daters, derats, stared, trades, treads