comport

Borrowed from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

comport (third-person singular simple present comports, present participle comporting, simple past and past participle comported)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with). [16th–19th c.]

   to comport with an injury

   • Daniel

     The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.

2. (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. [from 16th c.]

   The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.

   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

   • John Locke

     How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.

3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner). [from 17th c.]

   She comported herself with grace.

   • Burke

     Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.

• (be in agreement): cohere
• (behave): carry oneself, bear oneself

comport

1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; deportment.
   • Dryden

     I knew them well, and marked their rude comport.

• IPA^(key): [komˈport]

comport

1. first-person singular present indicative of comporta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of comporta