sperse

Aphetic form of asperse, from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere.

• IPA^(key): /spɜː(ɹ)s/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s

sperse (third-person singular simple present sperses, present participle spersing, simple past and past participle spersed)

1. (obsolete) To disperse.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Visions of Bellay”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     On all which did against his course oppose,
     Into a cloud of dust spers'd in the air

• “sperse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Espers, Perses, Persse, espers, perses, speers, speres, sprees

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛr.se/
• Rhymes: -ɛrse
• Hyphenation: spèr‧se

sperse

1. third-person singular past historic of spergere

sperse f pl

1. feminine plural of sperso

• presse