Obs. [f. as prec. + -MENT. Cf. OF. transportement (13–16th c.).]
1. Transportation: = TRANSPORT sb. 1. rare–1.
c. 1619. Fletcher, etc., Q. Corinth, IV. i. Are not you he, when your fellow Passengers, Your last transportment being assayl’d by a Galley, Hid your self i’ the Cabbin?
2. Vehement emotion, passion; rapture, ecstasy: = TRANSPORT sb. 3.
1639. Ld. Digby, etc., Lett. conc. Relig. (1651), 116. When they enveigh against Hereticks; their passions and transportments being at such times greatest.
1652. J. Wright, trans. Camus’ Nat. Paradox, XII. 325. To appease the frantick transportments of his Minde.
1686. trans. Chardin’s Coronat. Solyman, 81. Hairbrain’d, and violent actions, and full of a Transportment that truly savour’d of Extravagance.
