apport
Britishnoun
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the production of objects by apparently supernatural means at a spiritualists' seance
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the objects produced
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obsolete bearing; demeanour
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obsolete (plural) things brought as offerings; revenues
Etymology
Origin of apport
C15: from Old French aport, from aporter (vb), from Latin ad- + portāre to carry
Example Sentences
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Earlier than this the physician Cabanis, in his Rapports de Physique et de Morale, composed a semi-materialist work of great excellence according to eighteenth-century standards.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Wissen, eu Berlin, and Rapports annuels da Berzelius, Paris, 1843, 3rd year.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
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