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Webster 1913 Edition
Disple
Dis′ple
,Verb.
T.
To discipline; to correct.
[Obs.]
And bitter Penance, with an iron whip,
Was wont him once to
Was wont him once to
disple
every day. Spenser.
Definition 2024
disple
disple
English
Verb
disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)
- (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x: