resperse

English

Etymology

From Latin respersus, past participle of respergere; prefix re- (“re-”) + spargere (“to strew, sprinkle”).

Verb

resperse (third-person singular simple present resperses, present participle respersing, simple past and past participle respersed)

  1. (obsolete) To sprinkle; to scatter.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for resperse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Participle

rēsperse

  1. vocative masculine singular of rēspersus
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