ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec.] Dispersed, scattered.
1432. Wednesdayes Faste (W. de W.). Wherfore his shepe sparpled to folde he can brynge.
1483. Cath. Angl., 352/1. Sparpyllde, sparsus, diuisus.
c. 1557. Abp. Parker, Ps. xliv. 129. Thou letst us all as sparpled sheepe, to be devoured quyte.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XIII. xcix. With the next [stroke] his sparpled braines appeare. Ibid., XV. xc. Ihoues sparpled Alters licke the blood Of slaughtred Priam.
