proportare

proportare [CL=to bring forward, cite; cf. et. OF porporser, AN purporter, ME purporten] 1 to purport, to show (usu. absol., sts. as refl. & pass. or quasi-dep.): a (w. doc. as subj.); b (w. topographical feature as subj.). a suus dapifer offert se nescisse sicut juditium pro portat DB II 275b; c1199 secundum quod carta ejus ~at Regesta Scot. 414; c1230 sicut carta ‥ plenius testatur et ~at Dryburgh 50; c1350 secundum quod carta sua ‥ in se ~at, continet, et testatur Melrose 473; 1362 sicut carta sive litere ‥ in se plenius juste continent et ~antur RMS Scot 121 p. 35; 1451 confirmatio ejusdem sicut carta ‥ D. Dempster et confirmatio ejusdem ~ant et testantur Reg. Brechin I 167.  b c1165 unum toftum cum prato, sicut vadum ~at usque ad terram Hudkel (Ch.) Rec. Templars 272; c1224 concessi etiam predictis monachis claudere predictam hayam sicut cursus aque se ~at propter semitam ammovendam Ch. Chester 335 p. 336; 1266 concessimus ‥ unam partem bosci nostri de H., sicut fossata ~ant (Ch.) MonA VI 546a; 1249 per medium gardini usque ad quandam fraxinum in fossato predicto versus occidentem sicut bunde ~ant Cl 116 m. 12d.; 1316 prout mete et bunde condonant et ~ant (Cranfield) Ac. Man. Coll. Wint.; s1452 prout mete et bunde ‥ tenementorum ‥ demonstrant et ~ant Reg. Whet. I 101. 2 to claim. 1275 idem Johannes [coronator] falso ~avit decenam de Netheraven’ quod amoverunt corpus Rogeri Trencheffoyel occisi antequam coronator illud vidisset Hund. II 259a..