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English
Etymology
From Latin dispandere (“to spread out”), from dis- + pandere, pansum (“to spread out”).
Verb
dispand (third-person singular simple present dispands, present participle dispanding, simple past and past participle dispanded)
- (obsolete) To spread out; to expand.
1681, John Worlidge, Systema agriculturæ:it doth ferment, and transmute that which was before another thing, now into its own being, substance or nature, and thereby doth dispand its self, and increase into the form and matter by Nature designed
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