comport

verb

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To tolerate, bear, put up (with).

   “to comport with an injury”

   “The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.”

2. (intransitive)To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.

   “The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.”

   “How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.”

   “How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.”

3. (reflexive)To behave (in a given manner).

   “She comported herself with grace.”

   “Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.”

   “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.”

noun

1. (obsolete)Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.

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

   “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.”