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Webster 1913 Edition

Dispread

Dis-pread′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
dis-
+
spread
.]
To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open;
as, the sun
dispreads
his beams
.
Spenser.

Dis-pread′

,
Verb.
I.
To extend or expand itself.
[R.]
While tyrant Heat,
dispreading
through the sky.
Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dispread

DISPREAD

,
Verb.
T.
dispred. [dis and spread. See Spread.] To spread in different ways; to extend or flow in different directions.

DISPREAD

,
Verb.
I.
To expand or be extended.

Definition 2025

dispread

dispread

English

Verb

dispread ‎(third-person singular simple present dispreads, present participle dispreading, simple past and past participle dispreaded)

  1. (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 [...].

Etymology

From dis- +‎ spread.

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