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Comported

Comport \Com*port"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Comported; p. pr. & vb. n. Comporting.] [F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L. comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.]

  1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.]
    --Barrow.

  2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.

    How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    How their behavior herein comported with the institution.
    --Locke.

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comported

vb. (en-past of: comport)

Usage examples of "comported".

His honest, open features were burnt to a bright red, that comported well with the notion of exposure and hardships, while his sinewy hands denoted force, and a species of use removed from the stiffening and deforming effects of labor.

They bore me to a banquet in honor of a brave lieutenant -- Carlin, of the "Vandalia" -- who stuck by his ship in the great cyclone at Apia and comported himself as an officer should.

Woodseer comported himself like a veteran: he had proved that you can calculate the chances.

Rose Mackrell, comported themselves throughout as became the daughters of a warrior race.

The foyer of the theatre was banked with flowers, and against a curtain of evergreens stood a high-pedestalled bust of the paternal Caesar, with whose side-whiskers a laurel crown comported itself as well as it could.

Lincoln, who until then had comported himself like a confident lawyer in a hostile courtroom, suddenly looked stricken, as if wrung by the bitterest anguish.

Yet he comported himself bravely, and I was proud that Ursula's kindred should see him as he was.

To every one else she comported herself, at least in youth, with a dignity and decision--a certain stand-offishness--so that, as I said, it was not quite easy to speak to or think of her as "Ursula.