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com⋅port

1  [kuhm-pawrt, -pohrt]
Use comport in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to bear or conduct (oneself); behave: He comported himself with dignity.
–verb (used without object)
2. to be in agreement, harmony, or conformity (usually followed by with): His statement does not comport with the facts.
–noun
3. Obsolete. comportment.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF comporter < L comportāre to transport, equiv. to com- com- + portāre to port 5

Synonyms:
1. deport.

com⋅port

2  [kom-pawrt, -pohrt]
–noun
a large English glass dish of the 18th century used for holding fruit or candy and having a wide, shallow top supported by heavy stem and foot; compote.
Origin:
1765–75; alter. of F compotier a dish for compote; see -ier 2
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com·port   (kəm-pôrt', -pōrt')   
v.   com·port·ed, com·port·ing, com·ports

v.   tr.
To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: Comport yourself with dignity.
v.   intr.
To agree, correspond, or harmonize: a foreign policy that comports with the principles of democracy.

[Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, to conduct, from Latin comportāre, to bring together : com-, com- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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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.

Comport

Com*port"\, v. t. 1. To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.]

The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport. --Daniel.

2. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. --Burke.

Comport

Com"port\ (?, formerly ?), n. [Cf. OF. comport.] Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.]

I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. --Dryden.
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comport 
c.1385, from M.Fr. comporter "endure, behave," from L. comportare "to bring together," from com- "together" + portare "to carry" (see port (1)). Meaning "to agree with, suit" (with with) is from 1589.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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