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Definition of Dispels
1. dispel [v] - See also: dispel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispels
Literary usage of Dispels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"PIERRE, " that the rising of the moon dispels the clouds very perceptibly. "
The rising moon dispels the vapours with which the air is impregnated. ..."
2. The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem : in Six Cantosby William Hayley, Maria Flaxman, William Blake by William Hayley, Maria Flaxman, William Blake (1803)
"... But long her wakeful lids refuse to close, For curiosity dispels repose.
Her busy mind the mystic veil would pierce, That hides the author of the ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... must produce evidence which carries conviction to the human mind; a process
which in its own peculiar manner dispels doubt Warren v. Warren, 29 NY Supp. ..."
4. The Island of Nantucket: What it was and what it is : Being a Complete Index by Edward K Godfrey (1882)
"... Restores old wounds, dispels the glooms, And brings the callous, feeling.
Then let religious maniacs prate. And on the treaty bounce it; Here invalids ..."
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