comport

From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/

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• 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

   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1622 May 24 (licensing date), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:

     How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

   • a. 1705 (date written), [John Locke], “[(please specify the title)]”, in A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 17, →OCLC:

     How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.

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

   She comported herself with grace.

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

     Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.

   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith:

     Though genial enough when she got her way, on the rare occasions when people attempted to thwart her she was apt to comport herself in a manner reminiscent of Cleopatra on one of the latter’s bad mornings.

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

comport

1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.

   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     Personal virtues can be symbolic of capital—e.g., comport and charm as marks of “good” breeding—but to be a “celebrity” or “surgeon” or “professor” requires specific forms of capital.

Deverbal from comportar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kumˈpɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [komˈpɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [komˈpɔɾt]

comport m (plural comports)

1. conduct, behaviour

• “comport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [komˈport]

comport

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