Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To divest of the character or uses of a park; throw open to common use, as land forming a park.
  • To set at large; release from inclosure or confinement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
  • transitive verb To set at large; to release from inclosure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic (transitive) To open a private enclosure, park, etc. to the public.

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Examples

  • The most celebrated instance in which human agency was used to copy the disturbances imputed to supernatural beings refers to the ancient palace of Woodstock, when the Commissioners of the Long Parliament came down to dispark what had been lately a royal residence.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • It is highly probable, that a singular piece of phantasmagoria, which was certainly played off upon the Commissioners of the Long Parliament, who were sent down to dispark and destroy Woodstock, after the death of

    Woodstock 1855

  • The most celebrated instance in which human agency was used to copy the disturbances imputed to supernatural beings refers to the ancient palace of Woodstock, when the Commissioners of the Long Parliament came down to dispark what had been lately a royal residence.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801

  • It is highly probable, that a singular piece of phantasmagoria, which was certainly played off upon the Commissioners of the Long Parliament, who were sent down to dispark and destroy Woodstock, after the death of

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • And our name shall be a cannon-shot, before which your Lodge, in the pleasantness whereof ye take pastime, shall be blown into ruins; and we will be as a wedge to split asunder the King's Oak into billets to heat a brown baker's oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • King’s Oak into billets to heat a brown baker’s oven; and we will dispark your park, and slay your deer, and eat them ourselves, neither shall you have any portion thereof, whether in neck or haunch.

    Woodstock 1855

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  • to destroy a park

    March 28, 2009

  • Across the river from datpark.

    March 28, 2009