| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section IV. Order | | 3. Collective Order |
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| 73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion. |
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| NOUN: | DISPERSION; disjunction [See Disjunction]; divergence [See Divergence]; aspersion; scattering &c. v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment [See Apportionment]; spread, respersion [obs.], circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction [obs.], affusion.
WAIFS and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Hor.]; waveson.
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| VERB: | DISPERSE, scatter, sow, disseminate, diffuse, radiate, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion [See Apportionment]; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draft (or draught) off; strew, straw [obs.], strow [archaic]; ted; spurtle or spirtle [obs.], cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; intersperse, resperse [obs.]; set abroach, circumfuse.
spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.
TURN ADRIFT, cast adrift; scatter to the winds; sow broadcast.
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| ADJECTIVE: | UNASSEMBLED &c. (see assemble [See Assemblage]); diffuse, disseminated scattered, strown, strewn, dispersed &c v., dispersive, dissipative, diffusive, dispellent [rare]; sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic (general) [See Generality]; adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming resolvent, discutient [med.].
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| ADVERB: | sparsim [L.], here and there, passim [L.].
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