Shak.
If I endure it, what imports it you?
Dryden.
Syn. -- To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest;
concern.
Im*port", v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that . .
. importeth to the work." Bacon.
Im"port (?), n. 1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from
without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests,
as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them.
Burke.
2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification
or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.