asport (asport)

t. [ asportation (as-por-ta's hon), n. [ Aubrey, whose "Miscellanies" were published in 1696, had no doubts whatever as to the physical asportation of the witch. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 115. 2. In criminal law , the felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited. It may be theft, though the goods be not carried from the house or apartment. aspret, a. A Middle English form of asper1 . A spred inæ (as-pre-di'ne), n. pl. [NL., As pre do + ina .] Same as A spred in in a or As predinida. Swains on , 1839.