dispread
English
Etymology
Verb
dispread (third-person singular simple present dispreads, present participle dispreading, simple past and past participle dispreaded)
- (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii: