Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Disport   Listen
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Disport" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Drink, drink, little peasants! Disport yourselves bravely!" 'Twas gay beyond measure. In each breast awakens A wondrous new feeling, As though from the depths Of a bottomless gulf On the crest of a wave, 180 They've been borne to the surface To find there awaits them ...
— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov
... no occupation, and to deprive him of healthy exercise, so that no wonder he had grown lazy and selfish; but his native spirit was not entirely extinguished, and he assured me that a bare bone to growl over, and a little comfortable rain and mud to disport himself in like a dog, were still the greatest treats that could be offered to him. His temper had been farther soured by the spite and envy of dogs around him, who, less petted themselves, and not aware ...
— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland
... it do me harm to disport myself in the flowery mead with the butterflies? Should I feel a distaste for the bread earned by labour and pain after the honey ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... analogies; the use of far-fetched illustrations; quips and cranks and wanton wiles of the reasoning fancy in deviating self-indulgence; and an allusiveness which sets commentators into note-making effervescence. All these, and more, which belong to wit, are often quite ungoverned, allowed to disport themselves as they please. Such matters delight the unpoetic readers of Browning, and indeed they are excellent entertainment. But let us call them by their true name; let us not call them poetry, nor mistake their art for the art of poetry. Writing ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... for disport we fawn and flatter both, To pass the time when nothing else can please, And train them to our lure with subtle oath, Till, weary of their wiles, ourselves we ease; And then we say when we their fancy try, To play with fools, O what a fool ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org