/COMPORT-meaning

// Verb.

// Pronunciation and accent: kəmpɔət, IPA kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t

// Etymology: from Latin comportare “to bring together”, and from French comporter “to endure, suffer, conduct oneself, behave”, analysed into com- + portāre “to carry”.

// It is dated from the end of 1500.

// Transitive: obsolete meaning: to endure; tolerate.

// Intransitive: to comport with: a. Obsolete: to undergo without succumbing; be patient with; to bear with, tolerate, endure, suffer. b. Obsolete: to treat. c. (Of one thing) to be in harmony with another; (of two or more things): to suit; befit.

At this moment, cries and huzzas resounded in the street. At first, there was nothing alarming in these demonstrations of the general jubilee, and bursts of laughter only were heard, in which was mingled a licence of speech comporting little with the solemnity of the day.

E. Hook… Cousin Geoffrey… 1840

… the action which he took in this frightful emergency comported well with his insubmissive and intractable character.

J. Abbott… The History of Nero… 1853

// Reflexive: to conduct or behave oneself; to act in a specified manner.

// Translation: se comporter, in French; comportarse, in Spanish; comportarsi, in Italian.

She suffered me to comport myself exactly as I pleased; she gave me abundance of money.

S. Burney… Tales of fancy… 1820

"I went out on the road to Compiegne," replied Gallon gravely, "to see how the wolf looked in the sheepfold; and whether the falcon comported himself sociably in the dove's nest.

G. Rainsford… Philip Augustus… 1831