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Dispark v. t.

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. "The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked."

To set at large; to release from inclosure. "Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all."

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Etymology of 'Dispark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Oxfordshire (the title of which is well known to all readers of the marvellous) as the scene of a series of hoax and disturbance played off upon the commissioners of the Long Parliament, who were sent down to dispark and destroy Woodstock, after the death of Charles I.; and Sir Walter Scott thinks it "highly probable" that this "piece of phantasmagoria was conducted by means of the secret passages and recesses in the Labyrinth of Rosamond"—it must be admitted, a very convenient ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 327, August 16, 1828 • Various