disple
English
Etymology
Apparently a reduced form of discipline.
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:
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