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Definition of Dispersing
1. disperse [v] - See also: disperse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispersing
Literary usage of Dispersing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Proceedings in Parliament against Sir ADAM BLAIR,* and others, on an Impeachment
of High Treason, for dispersing a seditious and treasonable Paper, ..."
2. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"When called up, therefore, lie was uot only charged with having anil dispersing
certain books of Luther, but with translating certain chapters of his book ..."
3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1812)
"Proceedings in Parliament against Sir ADAM BLAIR,* and others, on an Impeachment
of High Treason, for dispersing a seditious and treasonable . ..."
4. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1992)
"Observations of Dispersing Juvenile Northern Spotted Owls Because ... Initial
directions taken by dispersing juveniles did not differ from a random ..."
5. A Handbook of Colloid-chemistry: The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1915)
"Molecular Weight of Substances in the Colloid State as Measured by Changes in
the Constants of the Dispersing Medium 1. General Remarks. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... turning aside to go to their own villages, dispersing and growing small by
twos or threes across the level plain.' And then, as the travellers reached ..."