1. To have or to present the appearance, sometimes false, of being or intending to be something: The reporter purported that he was being objective about the article that he wrote.
2. To have the intention of doing something: The new school curriculum purports to meet the needs of gifted students; as well as, the ungifted pupils.
3. Etymology: from Anglo-French purport; from purporter, "to contain"; from pur-; from Latin pro-, "forth" + Old French porter, "to carry"; from Latin portare, "to carry".