ETYMOLOGY
from make (to produce by action, bring about) + sport (activity involving physical exertion and skill)
EXAMPLE (for adj.)
“… Graunt that this present Tyrian with Troian asemblye
May breede good fortune to our freends and kynred heer after.
Let make sport Bacchus, with good ladye Iuno, be present.
And ye, my freend Tyrians, thee Troian coompanye frollick
Thus sayd, with sipping in vessel nycelye she dipped. …”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
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