adv. [L.] In various places; here and there; sparsely.
1586. J. Hooker, Conq. Irel., Ep. Ded. in Holinshed. Men … whose vertues are highlie recorded sparsim in the chronicles of England.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 839. See principally our Abecedarium Naturæ; And otherwise Sparsim in this in our Sylua Syluarum.
1733. Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., 71 (Dubl.). Corn standing irregular and sparsim.
1872. Lange, Comment. O. T., Eccl. iii. 15. 73. It appears in the Old Testament Ps. i. 5…; Job xxi. 30…; Proverbs and Prophets sparsim.
