/disport-meaning

/disport/

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation and accent: dɪspɔət.

-) Etymology: from Old French desporter (to divert, please), which is analysed into des- (prefix implying the idea of “apart” or “away”, from latin dis-) + porter (to bear). Porter is a derived from Latin portare (to bear).

-) Third-person singular simple present: she/he disports.

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: disported.

-) Present participle: disporting.

-) Documented since 1300.

-) Transitive and obsolete: to divert (an animated being) from sadness, ennui, or the like.

-) Reflexively: to behave sportively, as if to distract one’s mind from what is unpleasant; to perform an action, only for pleasure.

-) Synonyms for “disport”: to cheer oneself, divert onself, amuse oneself, enjoy oneself, to comport oneself, exult, sport.

-) Translation: divertirse, in Spanish; divertirsi, in Italian; se divertir, in French.

-) Antonyms: to mope, hurt oneself, afflict oneself, trouble oneself.

… the princess would bid her guard of bowmen retire to a distance, to insure her from approach; and while her ladies and pages disported themselves in the forest, would proceed onwards with her two favourite companions…

Grace Frances… The Courtier… 1839

The cold had driven away the lively little colony of bees, birds, and butterflies which have been seen disporting themselves about the bright white cauldron.

R. Burton… To the Gold Coast… 1863

… in the immediately preceding period, when the sub-tropical elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, disported themselves in the lignite woods of Middle Europe, have traces of mankind been found.

Popular Science, 1873

Numberless water-fowls, including geese, ducks of various kinds, several varieties of water-hens and ibises, disported themselves in its icy waters, or flew away, screaming, on our approach.

George Squier… Peru… 1877

-) With the preposition “with” + a noun or a gerund, designative of what is used to be sportive:

He that purposes to disport himself with killing doves, and other birds perched upon trees, must have bolts all of equal weight.

G. Hansard… The book of archery… 1840

… their elders disport themselves with cards, bagatelle, and the excitement of a sing-song meeting.

G. Sala… Gaslight and Daylight… 1859

-) Intransitively: to behave sportively, as if to distract one’s mind from what is unpleasant; to perform an action, with the only purpose of enjoying.

… the mind disports with different objects and forms, by an assemblage of thoughts and sensations.

R. Sullivan… A view of Nature… 1794

… she was disporting into an elaborate ridicule of some honest gentleman…

T. Hook… Cousin William… 1828

… we disported in the water.

J. Stepney… Leaves from the diary… 1854

-) Other English words derived from Latin portare: comport, comportment, deport, deported, deportable, deportation, deportee, deportment, export, exported, exporting, exportable, exportation, exporter, import (noun, verb), importability, importable, importance, important, importantly, importation, imported, importee, importer, importing, unimportant, unimportance, unimported, port (= mien), port (verb), portable, portability, portableness, portage (noun, verb), portatile, portation, portative, portée, porter, portership, portfolio, report, reported, reportedly, reportability, reportable, reportage, reportative, reporter, reporterage, reporting, reportless, reportorial, reportorially, reportship, unreported, unreportable, support (noun, verb), supportable, supportability, supportableness, supportably, supportative, supported, supporter, supporting, supportingly, supportive, supportiveness, supportless, supportlessly, supportress, unsupportable, unsupportableness, unsupportably, unsupported, unsupportedly, unsupportedness, unsupporting, transport (noun, verb), transportability, transportable, transportableness, transportation, transportative, transported, transportedly, transportedness, transportee, transporter, transporting, transportingly, transportive, untransported, untransportable, disporting, disportive, disportively, disportment, sport (noun, verb), sported, sportability, sportance, sporter, sportful, sportfully, sportfulness, sportiness, sporting, sportingly, sportive, sportively, sportiveness, sportless, sportling, sportsman, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, sportsmanliness, sportsmanship, sportswoman, sporty.

 

 

/disclaim-meaning-synonyms

/disclaim/

-) Verb.

-) Etymology: from Anglo French desclamer, which is analysed into dis- (apart, away) + claimer (to claim). The English CLAIM is from Latin clamare (to call, proclaim, declare aloud).

-) Pronunciation and accent: dɪskleɪm.

-) Preterite tense: disclaimed. Preterite participle: disclaimed.

-) Present participle: disclaiming.

-) Documented since 1300.

-) Intransitively: to make a formal disclaimer; to renounce a claim. (Used in law)

-) Transitively: -) 1. To renounce a claim to; to deny any relation with or concern in. (Used in law)

-) 2. To make an informal disclaimer of; to disavow or deny any connection with; to renounce any claim to; to declare (something or someone) as not belonging to oneself.

-) Translation: negar in Spanish; nier, in French; negare, in Italian.

-) Antonym of disclaim: to claim.

-) Synonyms for “disclaim”: to disown, deny, renounce.

[The prince] took every occasion to disclaim any notion of possessing himself of the crown.

Thomas Moore… The British Revolution…

I had compliments made to my person […] which [… occasioned] a singular opportunity of displaying my modesty, by disclaiming the merit of them, with a No, indeed!--I should be very vain, Ladies, if I thought so.

Richardson… Clarissa 1748

… when she was seated in her chair, the whole time disclaiming her intention of returning, he only pinched her cheek with a facetious smirk, and said, "By, by, little duck; come again soon…"

Burney… Cecilia 1782

An unequivocal declaration of a wish for peace, disclaiming all desire of conquest, might be issued without disgrace.

C. Coote – O. Goldsmith… The History of England… 1819

"Friend!" she exclaimed—"I have no friend—they have long since discarded us. A spectre arising from the dead were more welcome than I should be at the doors of those who have disclaimed us; and, if they were willing to restore their friendship to me now, I would despise it.

Scott… The Fortunes of Nigel… 1822

Perhaps I have said too much of this. I might, perhaps, with as much truth as most people, exculpate myself from the charge of being either of a greedy or mercenary disposition; but I am not, therefore, hypocrite enough to disclaim the ordinary motives.

Scott… The Fortunes of Nigel… 1822

Persons who lay claim to the good things of others are not rare; those who do not only disclaim their own, but even credit others with them, are among the very rarest.

F. Kemble… Records of a Girlhood… 1879

I modestly disclaimed any pretensions—and any desire—to be housed so handsomely. Sir John frowned in perplexity.

A. Hope… The Great Miss Driver… 1908

-) 3. -) a. To declare one’s refusal to acknowledge (something claimed by another); to deny. -) b. To declare one’s refusal to acknowledge the claim of authority of (someone).

-) Synonyms: to disallow, deny.

… they disclaimed the authority of that court, as unlawfully constituted.

G. Buchanan… The history of Scotland… 1690

… though he disclaimed him as a philosopher, yet allowed him to be a man of a fine imagination.

A. Chalmers… Biographical Dictionary… 1815

They had disclaimed the authority of both Charles and James as tyrants.

J. Anderson… A history of Edinburgh… 1856

-) Derived from the verb “disclaim”: disclaimer, disclaimant, disclamation, disclamatory.

-) Words derived from Latin clamare: reclaim (noun, verb), reclaimable, reclaimableness, reclaimably, reclaimant, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming, reclaimless, reclaimment, reclamation, acclaim, acclaimable, acclaimer, acclaiming, acclamation, acclamatory, counterclaim (noun, verb), counter-claimant, declaim, declaiming, declaimant, declaimer, declamation, declamatory, declamatoriness, declamatorily, exclaim (noun, verb), exclaimer, exclaiming, exclamation, exclamative, exclamatively, exclamatory, exclamatorily, over-clamour, proclaim, proclaiming, proclaimingly, proclaimant, proclaimed, proclaimer, proclamation, proclamatory, quitclaim, clamor, conclamation.

 

 

/disabuse-synonyms-etymology

/disabuse/

-) Transitive verb. 

-) Pronunciation and accent: dɪsəbjuːz.

-) Etymology: it is analysed into dis- (prefix implying the idea of undoing or reversing the action or effect of the verb) + the verb “abuse”, which was formerly used, in one of its acceptations, for “to make a wrong use of any one's confidence; cheat”. “Abuse” is analysed into ab- + “use”, from Latin usus, participle of uti (to use).

-) Preterite tense: disabused. Preterite participle: disabused. present participle: disabusing.

-) Definition: to cause (a person) to cease being deceived.

-) Synonyms for “disabuse”: to undeceive, undelude, unfool, uncheat, unbeguile. 

-) Antonyms of “disabuse”: to deceive, beguile, cheat, dupe, banter, befool, cajole, trick.

-) Translation: désabuser, in French; desengañar, in Spanish; disingannare, in Italian.

-) Syntax: with the preposition “of” + a noun, by which the deceit is designated:

Men in their extreme ignorance call us the weaker sex. The weaker sex! When -and they know it-we can pull and play with their hearts'-strings as little children play with toy harlequins. However, never disabuse them of the fond conceit. Our weakness, as they are pleased to call it, is our best strength.

The writings of D. Jerrold… 1853

,,, this was a notion of which his friends were not anxious to disabuse him.

De Quincey… 1872

I would beseech the literary critics of our country to disabuse themselves of the mischievous notion that they are essential to the progress of literature in the way critics have imagined.

W. Howells… Of Literature… 1895

-) English words derived from Latin uti: usury, utensil, utility, abusable, abused, abuse, abusefully, abuser, disabusal, disabused, self-abuse, utile, utilizable, utilization, utilize, utilized, utilizing, utilizer, inutility, inutile, inutilely, inutilized, unutilized, use, used, usedness, use, useful, usefully, usefulness, useless, uselessly, uselessness, user, inusitate, inusitateness, inusitation, unusable, unused, unused, unusedness, unuseful, unusefully, unusefulness, unusual, unusuality, unusually, unusualness, usual, usualness, usually, usurer, usuress, usurious, usuriously, usuriousness, usury.

 

 

/dip-meaning-etymology

/dip/

-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation: dɪp. 

-) Preterite tense: dipped (dɪpt), or dipt. Preterite participle: dipped.

-) Present participle: dipping.

-) Etymology: from Middle English dippen.

-) Documented since 979.

-) Transitively: -) 1. To immerse (something or someone) partially or for a little time, (for example, until it takes up a portion of the liquid); to put or let down in or into a liquid, or the vessel containing it.

-) Synonyms for “dip”: to soak, immerse, plunge.

-) Translation: tremper, in French; embeber, in Spanish; intingere, in Italian.

-) With the preposition “in”, or “into”, + noun, by which the liquid is designated:

The points of the arrows, which the Indians use in attacking their enemies, are sometimes dipped in a poisonous liquid which they extract from certain roots.

Harmon… The Interior of North America… 1820

After we had walked about three or four miles, we got sight of a bull, which we killed, and a little before night got back to the beach, as wet as if we had been dipt in water, and so fatigued that we were scarcely able to stand.

R. Kerr… A General History… 1824

Diana […] broke some bread, dipped it in milk, and put it to my lips.

Bronte… Jane Eyre… 1847

"Hold the candle," said Mr. Rochester, and I took it: he fetched a basin of water from the washstand: "Hold that," said he. I obeyed. He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face.

Bronte… Jane Eyre… 1847

The pattern about to be engraved is painted in lines, by a small piece of stick dipped in powdered charcoal and water.

J. Polack… The New Zealanders… 1849

He took the rudder when they had pushed out into the open water, the two young men dipped their oars.

 

E. Braddon… Henry Dunbar… 1864

When they write, they hold the paper in the left hand, and grasp a small stick in the right. This stick is sharpened to a point, like a pencil, and dipped in the ink, and with it the letters are formed with considerable rapidity.

T. Knox… The oriental world… 1879

The nuts must be five times handled: first picked, then shucked, then dried, then bleached, and then again dried. After the first drying, they are dipped by basketfuls into hot water, then poured into the bleachers,--boxes with perforated bottoms.

H. Jackson… Glimpses of Three Coasts… 1886

… there she sits, placid and smiling, with her spectacles in her hand and a measure of barley on her lap, into which the little girls are dipping their chubby hands and scattering the corn amongst the ducks and chickens with unspeakable glee.

M. Mitford… Our Village… 1893

Nigel dipped his finger in his glass and, leaning over, he placed its wet impress on the Breton's hand. "This in your face!" said he.

Arthur Doyle… Sir Nigel… 1906

-) 2. To take out or extract (liquid or something immersed in it) by dipping a dipper or other receptacle into it. 

-) Sometimes with adverb “out”, or “up”.

… that the fishermen, who make holes in the ice to dip up such fish with their nets as resort thither for breathing.

R. Carew… Carew's Survey of Cornwall… 1602

… without a kettle in which to boil a potato, or a pot to dip water from the strea.

Richard Carlile… The Lion… 1828

… we had tin cups, with which, when we were thirsty, we dipped water from the springs and brooks.

The Museum of Foreign Literature… vol. 21… 1832

… the substance --of a delicate rose color, and of the consistency of cream — is dipped out with buckets, sometimes amounting to sixteen or twenty barrels.

Harper's Magazine, vol. 12… 1855

She dipped warm water out of the reservoir for him and hung a fresh towel on the nail above the washstand in the corner.

B. M. Bower… The Long Shadow… 1908

-) 3. Metaphorically: to lower (something) for an instant, as if dipping in a liquid. Particularly: -) a. To lower and raise rapidly (a flag or the like.) -) b. To dim or lower (the beam of the headlights of a vehicle).

It will be easily seen how close these vessels must lie to the wind; they do not tack, but dip the sail in wearing.

J. Seely… The Wonders of Elora… 1824

-) 4. Metaphorical slang: to rob (a person) by “dipping into” his/her pocket or purse.

I want you to tell me the truth: did you, or did you not, dip this man when he was lying on the ground?

E. Wallace… White Face… 1931

You went over and you dipped him for his clock and pack.    

E. Wallace… White Face… 1931

-) Intransitively: -) 1. To immerse oneself and rapidly emerge; to become plunged in a liquid.

-) Synonyms: to plunge, dive.

It was extremely curious and instructive to mark how they [the swimmers] dived, and dipped, and paddled in the purple pool.

Colburn's New Monthly Magazin, vol. 94… 1852

[This fish] flies nearly to the distance of a gun-shot before he touches the water; and when he has slightly dipped, in order to rest himself, mounts up again.

S. Goodrich… Tales of Animals… 1875

-) With the preposition “into”, “in”, or “under” + a noun:

… the tube, by which it is connected with the second bottle, cannot dip into the water in that bottle.

J. Murray… A System of Chemistry… 1807

… the people, as often as I dipped under water, cried out that I was searching for this metal.

H. Barth… Travels and Discoveries… 1857

-) 2. -) a. To immerse one’s hand or a receptacle into a liquid, or into a vessel, esp. for the purpose of taking something out. -) b. Metaphor: to introduce one’s hand into a receptacle, in order to take something.

I dipped into the kettle and regaled myself with its unctuous contents.

The Yale Literary Magazine, vol. 26… 1860

-) 3. Metaphor: -) a. To go down; to go a lower place; to descend into a space, as if dipping into water. -) b. To extend downwards; --without implication of motion.

The sun dipped lower toward the alabaster crests of distant mountain peaks.

R. Cullum… The Forfeit… 1917 

-) 4. Metaphor: (of a magnetic needle, strata, etc.) to be inclined to the horizon; slope downwards.

-) 5. Metaphor: (of prices, profits, etc.) to depreciate. 

-) 6. Metaphor: to dip into (a book, a subject, etc.): to treat it cursorily, without perusal or prolixity.

While he was dipping into several volumes, an Irish officer seated himself near him, and began laboriously to adjust the tie of a sword-knot.

A. Porter… The Hungarian brothers… 1807

-) Words derived from “dip”: dipped, dipper, dipperful, dipping, dippingly, dip (noun).