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Definition of apport in English: apportnounəˈpɔːt A material object produced supposedly by occult means, especially at a seance. Example sentencesExamples - Supposedly materialized or teleported gifts from the spirits, apports appear at some seances under varying conditions-sometimes tumbling out of a spirit trumpet, for example.
- What is available is a videotape of the guru clumsily trying to produce a necklace for a politician at a public event, fumbling about under a trophy he is carrying, and almost dropping the ‘apport’ in a really sloppy performance.
- At the latter dark-room seance, I received an ‘apport,’ an object supposedly transported from the spirit realm.
- Apports have been recorded as arriving in various ways.
- If you have received an apport, then you, or someone in the vicinity, probably possess an degree of physical mediumship energy.
- He featured the production of apports, the floating-trumpet-with-spirit-voices feat, and something called ‘spirit precipitations on silk.’
- Tom and I were stunned; in fact this is an understatement, as we have never received an apport directly like this.
Origin Late 19th century: from French apport 'something brought', from apporter 'bring to'. Rhymes abort, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought |