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Meanings of comport in English

Portuguese
comportar
Catalan
conduir-se

Behave in a certain manner.

comportar
Usage of comport in English
1
Reubon agreed to comport himself in the manner advised in my last.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
2
He shall comport himself as if you were all at Nova Zembla.
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
3
He saw how he must comport himself toward this strange wild people.
The Great Taboo
4
Yet, taken as a whole, criminals on the scaffold comport themselves creditably.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
5
But how does such an idea comport with that of eternal torment?
Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
6
It seemed to comport ill with their baronial dress and general high-born appearance
The Rise of David Levinsky
7
Anne wondered how he would comport himself at the dinner on the fifteenth.
The Helpmate
8
Name such a sum as will comport with your own ideas.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
9
This is not the way critics are supposed to comport themselves.
The Guardian
10
Sometimes they even seemed to be trying to comport themselves like good guests.
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
11
The TEMPER which a saying may comport is an extra-logical matter.
The Meaning of Truth
12
The body is then legally dead, and must comport itself accordingly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
13
Their methods of sanitation did not comport with a permanent dwelling.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
14
I intended no offence, and shall certainly comport myself with due ceremony hereafter.
The Blithedale Romance
15
He hardly knew how to comport himself under such singular circumstances.
The Great Taboo
16
There are some women who would not so comport themselves, my Uncle Robert.
The Daredevil
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Comport through the time
Comport across language varieties
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