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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sportful, adj. [ME sportful (c1400); Sport n.1] Sportive, playful. —1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1976) 53.
This copy … accompanied that person … for ends best known to itselfe, whither to guard him from the secret assaults of som of its own folks, or only as ane sportful ape, to counterfeit all his actions 1691 Kirk Secr. Commow. (1976) 93.
Syrene-like pictures and representations of pleasure and gain presented to our imaginations by evil and sportful angels, to allure us to an unthinking, ungenerous, and sensual lyfe
