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insperse

insperse verb: to sprinkle; to scatter.

Verb

insperse (third-person singular simple present insperses, present participle inspersing, simple past and past participle inspersed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sprinkle; to scatter.
    • the Verity of these Paradoxes, inspersed upon the ensuing Treatise1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes

Forms of insperse

third-person singular presentinsperses
present participleinspersing
past participleinspersed
pastinspersed

Origin of insperse

From Latin inspersus, past participle of inspergere (“to sprinkle upon”); prefix in- (“in, on”) + spargere (“to sprinkle”).

Questions about insperse

What does insperse mean?
Insperse means to sprinkle; to scatter.
What part of speech is insperse?
Insperse is a verb.
What is the past tense of insperse?
The past tense of insperse is inspersed.

Words near insperse in the dictionary

  1. inspectresses
  2. inspectrices
  3. inspectrix
  4. inspects
  5. inspects the plumbing
  6. insperse
  7. insperses
  8. inspersion
  9. inspersions
  10. inspeximus
  11. inspeximuses

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