A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1601-1609
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Sparsle, Sparsell, Sparsal(l, v. [Altered form of Sparpal(l v. ? under the influence of Sparse v.] tr. = Sparpal(l v. 2 c. —1601 Bk. Univ. Kirk III 965 (cf. Sparple v. 2 c).
The impunitie of sick [sc. Papists] quho convoyes and sparsells the bookes through the countrey 1606 Misc. Spald. C. II 151 (cf. Sparple v. b).
Mr. Jhone Hamiltoune … and utheris … are … sparsling Hamiltouns blasphemous new book amangst them, and seducing them everie way 1609 Reg. Privy C. VIII 359.
[These persons] … took the wyndinscheit of ane man who depairtit this lyff of that seiknes, cutit the same wyndinscheit in peiceis, sparsallit the same throu the toun; quhairupon forder infectioun … followit
