ppl. adj. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. Dispersed, scattered, spread about or abroad, etc. Obs.
1590. H. Barrow, in Greenwood, Coll. Art., D ij b. I haue … bene … accused, by sparsed articles, printed priuiledged books.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XII. xlvi. There the blustring winds adde strength and might, And gather close the sparsed flames about.
a. 1608. Dee, Relat. Spir., I. (1659), 410. One … whose nether parts are in a cloud of fire, with his haire sparsed, his arms naked.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, IX. 359. Then flittes hee ouer all the maine, Where flotes the sparsed Nauies traine.
2. Bot. = SPARSE a. 2 a.
1697. Phil. Trans., XIX. 685. Towards the ripening of the Seed, the Bars in which they are included grow more spars’d, or at greater distance.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Umbel, A sparsed or thin Umbel is, when they [sc. flowers] stand at a distance from one another, yet all of an equal Height.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot. (1765), Teucrium, with sparsed Leaves.
1853. Macdonald & Allan, Botanist’s Word-bk., Sparsed,… numerous, but without fixed order.
