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Dispel vs Bispel - What's the difference?

dispel | bispel |

As a verb dispel

is to drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.

As a noun bispel is

(lb) a proverb or parable.

dispel

English

Verb

  • To drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
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  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

    • Usage notes

    * Objects: cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.

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    bispel

    English

    Noun

  • (lb) A proverb or parable.
  • *1983 , Marianne Powell, Fabula Docet :
    • Helmut de Boor offers a similarly narrow definition of the nature of morals to be drawn from fables. Opposing "bispel'" and fable he sums up the differences as regards this aspect: "The '''bispel''' aims at cognition, the fable gives practical knowledge, and in so far as an educational aim is involved the ' bispel aims at improving man, the fable at making him wiser."
  • *1998 , Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7 :
    • Such episodes and events were used to illustrate and justify more general or abstract 'philosophical' statements in much the same way as exempla or bispel' 'edifying illustrative stories' were used in medieval sermons. And just as we have collections of exempla and ' bispel from medieval times onwards in Europe, [...]
  • *2008 , Janie Steen, Verse and Virtuosity :
    • In adopting the bipartite structure, then, the Phoenix-poet demonstrates that this poem is a 'two-fold story,' a bispel .
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