KJV Dictionary Definition: disperse

disperse

DISPERSE, v.t. dispers. L., to scatter.

1. To scatter; to drive asunder; to cause to separate into different parts; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

2. To diffuse; to spread.

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Proverbs 15.

3. To dissipate; as, the fog or the cloud is dispersed.

4. To distribute.

DISPERSE, v.i. dispers.

1. To be scattered; to separate; to go or move into different parts; as, the company dispersed at ten oclock.

2. To be scattered; to vanish; as fog or vapors.

dispersed

DISPERSED, pp. Scattered; driven apart; diffused; dissipated.

disperseness

DISPERSENESS, n. Thinness; a scattered state. Little used.

disperser

DISPERSER, n. One who disperses; as the disperser of libels.

dispersing

DISPERSING, ppr. Scattering; dissipating.

dispersion

DISPERSION, n.

1. The act of scattering.

2. The state of being scattered, or separated into remote parts; as, the Jews, in their dispersion, retain their rites and ceremonies.

3. By way of eminence, the scattering or separation of the human family, at the building of Babel.

4. In optics, the divergency of the rays of light, or rather the separation of the different colored rays, in refraction, arising from their different refrangibilities. The point of dispersion , is the point where refracted rays begin to diverge.

5. In medicine and surgery, the removing of inflammation from a part, and restoring it to its natural state.

dispersive

DISPERSIVE, a. Tending to scatter or dissipate.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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