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Desported vs Disported - What's the difference?

desported | disported |

As verbs the difference between desported and disported

is that desported is past tense of desport while disported is past tense of disport.

desported

English

Verb

(head)
  • (desport)

    • desport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disport.
  • To amuse oneself; to make a public display of oneself.

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    disported

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disport)

    • disport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol
  • * Buckle
    • They could disport themselves.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • where light disports in ever mingling dyes
  • * Byron
    • Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, / Disporting there like any other fly.
  • to display ostentatiously
  • To remove from a port; to carry away.
    • (Prynne)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A pastime; anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game; sport; relaxation, recreation; entertainment; amusement
  • (obsolete) Fun; gaiety; merriment; mirth; joy
  • (obsolete) Deportment; bearing; carriage.
  • (obsolete) orientation; elevation; bearing.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
    • ... shooting a bullet ... out of a Culverin towards the East, and afterwards another, with the same charge, and at the same elevation or disport towards the West.

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