The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.]
--Barrow.-
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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vb. (present participle of comport English)
Usage examples of "comporting".
He broke off to stare glumly at his rival, who sported a chestful of medals that blinked in different colors, and who was holding forth self-importantly to a captive audience of Rubinstein and some of the bigger diplomatic guns, comporting himself as if he were the equal or superior of the ambassadors from the older civilizations of Alpha Centauri and Tau Ceti.
Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, the first wife of the Governor, appears by the data supplied by the record of her marriage in Holland, May 27, 1618, to have been a maiden of comporting years to her husband's, he being then twenty-three.
Ellen (or "Elen") Billington, as Bradford spells the name, was evidently of comporting age to her husband's, perhaps a little younger.
He had a pleasant, simple way of comporting himself which made people like him.
Leaving aside the fact that Berry's chair was neither elevated nor any larger or fancier than any other, she was comporting herself far too casually and unpretentiously.