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Meanings of disport in English

Portuguese
fazer travessuras
Catalan
saltar

Play boisterously.

      fazer travessuras
      Portuguese
      divertir
      Catalan
      entretenir
      Spanish
      entretener

      Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.

            divertir

            To amuse oneself in a light, frolicsome manner.

                  Usage of disport in English
                  1
                  Pigeons were seen to always disport in the houses of the Vrishnis.
                  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
                  2
                  A garden would do me good, in which I could disport myself.
                  Four Arthurian Romances
                  3
                  This is the night when unlicked cubs do disport themselves in our precincts.
                  Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
                  4
                  There are avenues of water-pots, who disport themselves much in squirting up cascadelins.
                  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
                  5
                  Upon whose sloping shores disport the enormous mastodon, the stately megatherium, the tremendous-eh?
                  The Lost City
                  6
                  It wasn't exactly the place for you to disport yourself in under the circumstances.
                  A Set of Six
                  7
                  I know the way down to a smooth beach where we can disport ourselves.
                  The Princess Pocahontas
                  8
                  Lords, we do wrong to disport ourselves in this pleasaunce without our comrade Launfal.
                  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
                  9
                  They will disport themselves on the green water, and we on the green cloth!
                  The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
                  10
                  So let us have done with these heavy matters, and disport us for a while.
                  Red Eve
                  11
                  To meddle with them is not to disport, but to defile one's self and others.
                  Sermons on Evil-Speaking
                  12
                  There were also two pretty gardens in which the boys and girls could disport themselves separately.
                  The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists / The Pionee...
                  13
                  No more would the "live one" disport himself in his wild and woolly glory.
                  The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
                  14
                  Labor, triumphant, would parade and otherwise disport itself.
                  The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
                  15
                  But when the Philistine would disport himself, the grimness of Melpomene, herself, attends upon his capers.
                  Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
                  16
                  Look you, Leo, because I cannot wear Kohinoor, must I disport myself without any diamond necklace?
                  At the Mercy of Tiberius
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                  Translations for disport
                  Disport through the time
                  Disport across language varieties
                  United Kingdom
                  Common