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portise

portise is the obsolete form of portass.

Meaning of portass

Noun

portass (plural portasses)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book.
    • 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.1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

Forms of portise

pluralportises

Questions about portise

What is portise the obsolete form of?
Portise is the obsolete form of portass.

Words near portise in the dictionary

  1. portionless
  2. portions
  3. portions off
  4. portions out
  5. portionwise
  6. portise
  7. portises
  8. Portishead
  9. portière
  10. portièred
  11. portières

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portise (page history and authors); portass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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