Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a dispersed manner; separately

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  • adverb In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.

Etymologies

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From dispersed +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • But this again had been done "dispersedly," as the Shakespearean stage-direction has it.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • There will always be a true Church at Rome and dispersedly: urbs et orbis.

    Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009

  • Canutus, William, Matilda, and others, some British coins of gold have been dispersedly found, and no small number of silver pieces near Norwich, with a rude head upon the obverse, and an ill-formed horse on the reverse, with inscriptions Ic. Duro.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • It was very quiet still, even the children were a little inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • I saw the Duke on the other side, by the waning light, engaged in commanding his people to get into order, as they landed dispersedly, some higher, some lower.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • For they lived dispersedly, as was the manner in ancient times.

    Politics Aristotle 2002

  • Wild dogs yelped dispersedly from the direction of the Deli river.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • It is to be hoped that he will escape the doubtful honor of being dispersedly set forth in a 'Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Hardy.'

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • We rush in and encircle them with serried arms, and cut them down dispersedly in their ignorance of the ground and seizure of panic.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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