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sportful, a.|ˈspɔətfʊl|
[f. sport n.1 Freq. in the 17th c.; in the 19th chiefly used by Carlyle.]
1. Yielding sport, diversion, or entertainment; having an element of recreation, play, or frolic.
c1400Beryn 294 Othir beddis [of herbs]..ful fressh i-dight For comers to the hoost, riȝte a sportful sight. 1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 155 Hyt was a sportfulle sygthe, How hys darttes he did schak. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 259 If neere unto the Eleusinian Spring, Som sport-full Jig som wanton Shepheard sing. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 163 Lets away. Of all the yeare this is the sportfulst day. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 289 The Drones are a lazie and carelesse generation, delighting themselves in sportfull recreations. 1700Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iii. i, Where the sportful Chace had call'd us forth. 1760Home Siege of Aquileia v, If from Rome thou went'st A sportful journey to the Baian shore. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne, etc. 242 They tempt the reader..into pleasing and sportful fields of narration. 1830Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1888) III. 25 A view of man and man's life not less cheerful, even sportful, than it is deep and calm. 1858― Fredk. Gt. x. ii. (1872) II. 580 A young fool, bent on sportful pursuits instead of serious.
b. Devised or carried on merely in sport; not earnest or serious.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 373 How with a sportfull malice it was follow'd, May rather plucke on laughter then reuenge. 1606― Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 335 Though't be a sportfull Combate, Yet in this triall much opinion dwels. 1651H. More Second Lash in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 185, I shall now begin the game of my personated Enmitie, or sportfull Colluctation with him.
c. Of movements: Lively, frolicsome.
1691Ray Creation (1714) 41 This sportful dance of atoms. 1713Guardian No. 71, He couches and frisks about in a thousand sportful motions. 1848Fraser's Mag. XXXVIII. 71 The sportful leap of a trout.
2. Of persons, their minds, etc.: Having an inclination or tendency to engage in sport or play; sportive, playful.
a1593Marlowe Edw. II, i. i. 64 Crownets of pearle about his naked armes, And in his sportfull hands an Oliue tree. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. i. 18 Oh vnbid spight, is sportfull Edward come? 1632Massinger Emperor of East i. ii, There I am call'd The Squire of Dames,..And by the allowance of some sportful ladies, Honour'd with that title. 1671Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 238 She not pleasing him, being not sportfull enough. 1755Man No. 23. 2 The powers of the imagination, and the sportful wits of men are rouzed..by..nature in the Spring. 1767Sir W. Jones Seven Fountains Poems (1777) 37 But when the sportful train beheld from far The nymphs returning with the stately car. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. II. 110 They who were then sportful on the green are now serious in the church. 1827― Misc. (1857) I. 332 With a heart at once of the most earnest and the most sportful cast.
transf.1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iv. xiii, Here sportfull Laughter dwells, here ever sitting, Defies all lumpish griefs, and wrinkled care. 1707Curiosities in Husb. 41 Figures..which we admire as the Work of sportful Nature.
b. Of animals, birds, fishes, etc.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 6 They [i.e. monkeys] are very sportful, and giuen to imitate the actions of men like apes. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. xiii. 271 And the most sportfull fishes dare not jest with the edged-tools of this Dead-Sea. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 497 When sportful Coots run skimming o'er the Strand. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 91 The poet beholds shady groves, sportful flocks, and verdant lawns. 1768Sir W. Jones Solima 96 The camels bounded o'er the flowery lawn, Like the swift ostrich, or the sportful fawn. 1862D. Campbell Lang., Poet., & Music Highland Clans 145 Sportful in his proud career, he [the salmon] springs at the midges. |