portass

English

Alternative forms

portace, portas, portasse, portess, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse

Etymology

Old French porte-hors (“a kind of portable prayer-book”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təs/

Noun

portass (plural portasses)

(obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, OCLC 1064186951:
  an old Priest in that age , which always read in his Portass, mumpsimus domine for sumpsimus; whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now had used mumpsimus thirty years, and would not leave his old mumpsimus for their new sumpsimus.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shypmans Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:
  By God and by this portehors I swere.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  In his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worn, but therein little red; For of devotion he had little care.
- 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches
  Their portases, bedes, temples, aultars.
- 1565, Robert Wever, An Enterlude called lusty Juventus
  Let me see your portous, gentle sir John.
- 1553, [unknown translator], Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia
  Boner hath set up again in Paules Salesburi Latin portace.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for portass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Sproats, asports, pastors, sap rots

单词	portass
释义	portass English Alternative forms portace, portas, portasse, portess, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse Etymology Old French porte-hors (“a kind of portable prayer-book”). Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təs/ Noun portass (plural portasses) (obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book. 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, OCLC 1064186951: an old Priest in that age , which always read in his Portass, mumpsimus domine for sumpsimus; whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now had used mumpsimus thirty years, and would not leave his old mumpsimus for their new sumpsimus. 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shypmans Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868: By God and by this portehors I swere. (please add an English translation of this quote) 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938: In his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worn, but therein little red; For of devotion he had little care. 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches Their portases, bedes, temples, aultars. 1565, Robert Wever, An Enterlude called lusty Juventus Let me see your portous, gentle sir John. 1553, [unknown translator], Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia Boner hath set up again in Paules Salesburi Latin portace. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for portass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913) Anagrams Sproats, asports, pastors, sap rots
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