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▪ I. disport, n. arch.|dɪˈspɔət|
Also 4–5 des-, 5 dys-.
[a. AF. disport, OF. desport, commonly deport ‘disport, sport, pastime, recreation, pleasure’ (Cotgr.), f. desporter: see next. For sense 5, cf. deport n.]
1. Diversion from serious duties; relaxation, recreation; entertainment, amusement. arch.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 4110 And come to hym on hys dysport To make Florens gode cumfort. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 586 Wes nane that euir disport mycht have Fra steryng, and fra rowyng. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 45 To Rome for to wende, Were it for chapmanhode or for disport. ― Merch. T. 680 Dooth hym disport, he is a gentil man. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxii. 242 He takeþ his desport passing be the contree. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 433 b/1 Prayed..that she myght haue..hir suster wyth hir for hir dysporte, comforte and companye. 1502Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830) 84 Item to the Quenes grace..for hure disporte at cardes this Crismas..C s. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 30 One day for his disport, hunting of the wild boare. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. Argt., The Goddess is first pleased for her disport to propose games to the Booksellers. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xvii, I would find myself both disport and plenty out of the King's deer. 1881Rossetti Ball. & Sonn. 117 The King and all his Court Were met..for solace and disport.
2. Anything which affords diversion and entertainment; a pastime, game, sport. arch.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 2217 Tel me furst by þy lay; wat doþ ȝour men of fraunce; Of hure disport & ek hure play. c1400Mandeville (1839) iii. 17 A fair place for justynges or for other Pleyes and desportes. 1576Fleming Caius' Eng. Dogs ii. in Arb. Garner III. 246 Dogs serving the disport of Fowling. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 272 That my Disports corrupt, and taint my businesse. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 20 Libertie, for some Disports that might be used on the Sabbath. 1690E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. 126 Some honest kind of Disports. 1861Our Eng. Home 21 The display of those pageants and disports which enlivened the repast.
†3. Merriment, mirth, fun. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 138 Sikerly she was of greet desport, And ful plesaunt, and amyable of port. 1659Heylin Animadv. in Fuller's Appeal (1840) 321 It was..a matter of no mean disport amongst the people for a long time after. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 117 They..in disport surround the drunken wight. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vi. 220 To the great amusement and disport of the polite spectators.
†4. The making sport of. Obs. rare.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 159 King Sesostrio..caused four captive Kings to draw his Coach..he prided his inconstant Fortune, in the desport of their Vassalage.
†5. Bearing, carriage, deportment. Obs. rare.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxii, I carried myself..in such fanciful guise of careless disport, that right sore am I ashamed now.
▪ II. disport, v.|dɪˈspɔət|
Forms: 4–5 desporte, 5–6 dys-, 5– dis-.
[a. AF. desporter (Bozon), OF. desporter, depporter, usually deporter, to divert, amuse, please (Godef.); refl. ‘to cease, forbeare, leaue off, giue ouer: also to disport, play, recreate himselfe, passe away the time’ (Cotgr.); f. des-, dis- 1 + porter:—L. portāre to carry, bear. For the sense ‘divert, amuse’, cf. the similar development of F. divertir, déduire, the notion being that of turning, leading, or carrying away the attention from serious or sad occupations.]
†1. trans. To divert (from sadness, ennui, or the like); to amuse, to entertain. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 696 (724) Þey gonnen here comforten..And with here tales wenden here disporten. 1393Gower Conf. I. 75 Tho was þis wofull wif conforted Be alle weies and desported. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 15 Pip[in]s, quinces, blaunderelle to disport, And the pomecedre corageos to recomfort. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 275 Hee forces Barames to weare womens apparell, and with a Distaffe in's hand to disport the insulting multitude. 1665Ibid. (1677) 12 Well I remember that all the way we sail'd..we were disported by Whales.
2. refl. to disport oneself: to cheer, divert, amuse, or enjoy oneself; to occupy oneself pleasurably; now esp. to play wantonly, frolic, gambol, sport; to display oneself sportively.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1441 Hipsiph. & Medea (Camb. MS.), To saylyn to that lond hym to disporte. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiv. 154 Þare in will he sitt..for to disporte him and take þe aer. 1530Palsgr. 521/1 Go disporte you with them, they be good felowes. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. v. 8 He hath..attended with weake guard, Come hunting this way to disport himselfe. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V Wks. (1711) 104 Whilst he disported himself at the court of France. 1742Warburton Comm. Pope's Ess. Man Wks. 1811 XI. 142 After having disported himself at will, in the flowery paths of fancy. 1879Beerbohm Patagonia 9 Seabirds were disporting themselves in the water. 1887Bowen Virg. Eclog. vi. 2 My Muse in Sicilian measure was well Pleased to disport her.
3. intr. (for refl.) = prec.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. (1482) 287 The emperour..come in to englond to kyng Henry with hym to speke and to disporte. 1591Spenser Daphn. 118, I her caught disporting on the greene. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 157 Every man runs to the taverne to disport..and to bee drunken. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock ii. 66 Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes. 1809Campbell Gertr. Wyom. i. iii, The flamingo..disporting like a meteor on the lakes. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) II. 21 See the cubs disporting at the mouth of the briery aperture.
†4. ? To deport oneself. Obs. rare.
c1450Lonelich Grail xxxvi. 281 At themperours table Iset he was, and there disported hym al that day As a man that In letargye lay.
†5. trans. ? To divert, or turn away. Obs. rare.
1450Paston Lett. No. 122. I. 163 The day of oier and termyner shall holde at Norwich on Moneday next comyng, and by that cause my Lord of Oxenford shall be disported of his comyng to the Parlement. |