• IPA: /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/

comport (comports, present participle comporting; past and past participle comported)

1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with). [16th–19th c.]

   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. [from 16th c.]

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

   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Prophetess”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 5, scene 2:

     How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

   • 1707, John Locke, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul

     How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.

3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner). [from 17th c.]

   She comported herself with grace.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.

• (be in agreement) cohere
• (behave) carry oneself, bear oneself

• French: se conformer à, s'accorder avec, être en agrément avec, se mettre d'accord, tomber d'accord
• Italian: aderire a, accordarsi
• Russian: соотве́тствовать
• Spanish: conformar, acomodar, ponerse de acuerdo, coincidir

• French: se comporter, se conduire, se tenir
• German: verhalten, benehmen
• Italian: comportarsi
• Portuguese: comportar
• Russian: вести себя́
• Spanish: portar, conducir

comport

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

   • I knew them well, and marked their rude comport.