disple

English

Etymology

Apparently a reduced form of discipline.

Verb

disple (third-person singular simple present disples, present participle displing, simple past and past participle displed)

(obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And bitter Penance with an yron whip, / Was wont him once to disple euery day […]

Anagrams

Spidle, diples, dispel, lisped, pleids, spiled

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