comport

• POS: Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: com=port

CIDE DICTIONARY

comport, v. i. [F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L. comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.].

•  To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.  Barrow.  [1913 Webster]
•  To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.  [1913 Webster]

  "How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness."  [1913 Webster]

  "How their behavior herein comported with the institution."  [1913 Webster]

comport, v. t. 

•  To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.  [1913 Webster]

  "The malcontented sort
  That never can the present state comport."  [1913 Webster]
•  To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.  [1913 Webster]

  "Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself."  [1913 Webster]

comport, n. [Cf. OF. comport.].

 Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.  [1913 Webster]
"I knew them well, and marked their rude comport."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

comport, v.refl. literary conduct oneself; behave.

Idiom

comport with suit, befit.

Derivative

comportment n.

Etymology

L comportare (as COM-, portare carry)

THESAURUS

comport

accord, acquit, act, bear, carry, check, conduct, correspond, demean, deport, dovetail, fit in, gee, go, go on, quit, square, tally