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Disported vs Disparted - What's the difference?

disported | disparted |

As verbs the difference between disported and disparted

is that disported is (disport) while disparted is (dispart).

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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    disparted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispart)

    • dispart

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dispartire and its source, (etyl) dispartire.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To part, separate.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
  • *:that same mighty man of God, / That bloud-red billowes like a walled front / On either side disparted with his rod [...].
  • * Emerson
    • The world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted .
  • (obsolete) To divide, divide up, distribute.
  • *, II.xi:
  • *:Them in twelue troupes their Captain did dispart / And round about in fittest steades did place [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
  • * Eng. Cyc.
    • On account of the dispart , the line of aim or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis.
  • A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a dispart sight.
  • To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
  • * Lucar
    • Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece.