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verb
Disport  v. t.  
1.
To divert or amuse; to make merry. "They could disport themselves."
2.
To remove from a port; to carry away.


Disport  v. i.  (past & past part. disported; pres. part. disporting)  To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. "Where light disports in ever mingling dyes." "Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly."


noun
Disport  n.  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.





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"Disport" Quotes from Famous Books



... was to carry off Aggodagauda's daughter, who was very beautiful. To prevent this Aggodagauda had built a log cabin, and it was only on the roof of this that he permitted his daughter to take the open air and disport herself. Now her hair was so long that when she untied it the raven locks hung ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... those who live near large towns, give their wedding-parties at a cafe or 'uitspanning.' This word means literally a place where the horse is taken out of the shafts, but it is also a restaurant with a garden attached to it, in which there are swings and seesaws, upon which the guests disport themselves during the afternoon, while in the evening a large hall in the building is arranged for the ball, for that is the conclusion of every 'Boeren bruiloft.' Very often the ball lasts till the cock-crowing, and then, if the 'Bruiloft houers' are Roman Catholics, it is no uncommon practice ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough
... skating, and attracts not only the boys and girls of the village, but a large number of their elders. The lake grows lively with the gracefully gliding promenade of skaters, with here and there a group playing at hockey, while others disport themselves at "crack the whip." The friction of so many gliding feet imparts to the frozen surface a low and weirdly humming sound, and the droning note is echoed by the hills, until the valley resounds with monotonous music. There are times when ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall
... emotion which the hushed and starry aspect of night is calculated to excite. The long-broken luxurious silence that, in their frozen climate, reigns from the going down of the sun to its rise; the wandering and sudden meteors that disport, as with an impish life, along the noiseless and solemn heaven; the peculiar radiance of the stars; and even the sterile and severe features of the earth, which those stars light up with their chill and ghostly serenity, serve to deepen the effect of the wizard tales which are instilled into the ...
— Godolphin, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Beaumont and the road along the Admiralty canal are now the citizens' chief places of disport. Before the year 1869 the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele, that skirts the sea on the south side of the old town, was their sole promenade. And even this street was built only a short time ago. Vainly one conjectures where the medieval ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas


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