comport

Etymology

From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with).
   to comport with an injury
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.
3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner).
   She comported herself with grace.
   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. 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith

noun

1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.
   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. 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking