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disple

disple verb: to discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.

Verb

disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)

  1. (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
    • And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of disple

third-person singular presentdisples
present participledispling
past participledispled
pastdispled

Origin of disple

Apparently a reduced form of discipline.

Questions about disple

What does disple mean?
Disple means to discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
What part of speech is disple?
Disple is a verb.
What is the past tense of disple?
The past tense of disple is displed.

Words near disple in the dictionary

  1. displayers
  2. displaying
  3. displayings
  4. displays
  5. displaywide
  6. disple
  7. displeas'd
  8. displeasance
  9. displeasant
  10. displeasantly
  11. displeasantness

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