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noun

Comport n. Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. (Obs.) "I knew them well, and marked their rude comport."

verb

Comport v. t.

To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. (Obs.) "The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport."

To carry; to conduct; with a reflexive pronoun. "Observe how Lord Somers... comported himself."

Comport v. i. (past & past part. comported; pres. part. comporting)

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. (Obs.)

To agree; to accord; to suit; sometimes followed by with. "How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness." "How their behavior herein comported with the institution."

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"Comport" Quotes from Famous Books

... name of the emperor, were in a state of great confusion. Yoshiteru, the shogun, had been assassinated by one of his retainers, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu. The younger brother of Yoshiteru was Yoshiaki, who desired to succeed, but this did not comport with the designs of the assassins. Accordingly after making several unsuccessful applications for military aid he finally applied to Nobunaga. This was exactly the kind of alliance that Nobunaga wanted to justify his schemes of national conquest. With ...

— Japan • David Murray

... art of arms. Likewise he instructed him in all the civilities and the customs of chivalry, so it befell that ere Sir Percival came forth from Joyous Gard again he was well acquainted with all the ways in which he should comport himself at any time, whether in field ...

— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle

... the liberty of submitting to your consideration, how far his Majesty's now declining to take this step would comport with the assurances lately given on that subject, and whether hesitation and delay would not tend to lessen the confidence, which those ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various

... and abruptly left the room. Hilda moved to and fro nervously, stiff with having stood still so long. She wondered how he, and how she, would comport themselves in the ordeal of adieu. In a few moments a cab drove up—Louisa had probably encountered it on the way. Hilda waited, tense. Then she heard the cab driving off again. She rushed aghast to the window. ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... Guthorm, the eldest; then Gunhild; the next Halfdan, Ingerid, and Harald. The messengers said to Sigurd, "Asta told us to bring thee word how much it lay at her heart that thou shouldst on this occasion comport thyself in the fashion of great men, and show a disposition more akin to Harald Harfager's race than to thy mother's father's, Hrane Thin-nose, or Earl Nereid the Old, although they too were very wise men." The king replies, "The news ye bring me is weighty, and ye bring ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

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