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Quotation dates: 1576-1700+
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Dissipat(e, p.p. Also: disipat. [e.m.E. (1606), L. dissipātus.] Dissipated, dispersed. 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 259 b.
That his gudis be not dissipate bot vsit … for thair weill & proffeitt 1613 Ib. XLVII. 344.
That my guidis and geir be nawayis dissipat nor misgovernit 1643 Baillie II. 56.
If Essex … had used his tyme, the King's armie might easilie have been dissipat 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 446.
Seeing … the forces in oppositione to the present government is wholly disipat 1715 Wodrow Corr. II. 101.
The best of the rebels' men are dissipate and cut off
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