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Disported

Disport \Dis*port"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Disported; p. pr. & vb. n. Disporting.] [OF. se desporter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. porter to carry; orig. therefore, to carry one's self away from work, to go to amuse one's self. See Port demeanor, and cf. Sport.] 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.
--Pope.

Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly.
--Byron.

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disported

vb. (en-past of: disport)

Usage examples of "disported".

Small multi-coloured dragons gambolled along the lowest of the branches and a family of blue and orange-splotched panthers disported themselves in a nearby stream.

Not only had Axis disported himself with another woman to the extent that he had got a son on herand another on the way!

Small multicolored dragons gamboled along the lowest of the branches and a family of blue-and-orange-splotched panthers disported themselves in a nearby stream.

Not only had Axis disported himself with another woman to the extent that he had got a son on her - and another on the way!

And yet the Northmen were cheerful, and joked and drank for an evening in this sea village of Lenneborg, and disported themselves with many of the women and slave girls.

There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening.

He lay on his back, and the eyes darted hither and thither, following the flight of the several flies that disported in the gloomy air above him.

At the far end, beneath the wall on which Elua, Cassiel and Naamah disported themselves, stood a small mountain crag and in it a grotto in which musicians struck a tableau as Hellene muses and played sweet tunes.