dispart

[ dis-pahrt ]

verb (used with or without object)
  1. to divide into parts; separate; sunder.

Origin of dispart

1
1580–90; apparently <Italian dispartire<Latin dispartīre to part, separate, divide, equivalent to dis-dis-1 + partīre to share out, derivative of part-part

Other words from dispart

  • dis·part·ment, noun

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How to use dispart in a sentence

  • Once in other veins it runs, It no more yearneth for the parent flood, Than doth the stream that from the source disparts.

    The Hunchback | James Sheridan Knowles