Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Disple

Dis′ple

,
Verb.
T.
To discipline; to correct.
[Obs.]
And bitter Penance, with an iron whip,
Was wont him once to
disple
every day.
Spenser.

Definition 2024


disple

disple

English

Verb

disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)

  1. (obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
    • 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
      And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day [...].

Anagrams