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Com*port" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Comported; p. pr. & vb. n. Comporting.] [F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L. comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See Port demeanor.] 1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow.

2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.

How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl.

How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.

Com*port" (?), v. t. 1. To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with. [Obs.]

The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport. Daniel.

2. To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

Observe how Lord Somers . . . comported himself. Burke.

Com"port (?, formerly &?;), n. [Cf. OF. comport.] Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.]

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

Com*port"a*ble (?), a. Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

Com*port"ance (?), n. Behavior; comport. [Obs.]

Goodly comportance each to other bear. Spenser.

Com`por*ta"tion (?), n. [L. comportatio.] A bringing together. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Com*port"ment (?), n. [F. comportement.] Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley.

Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

Com*pose" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Composed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Composing.] [F. composer; com- + poser to place. The sense is that of L. componere, but the origin is different. See Pose, v. t.] 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection. Bp. Sprat.

2. To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.

Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton.

A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts.

3. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.

Let me compose Something in verse as well as prose. Pope.

The genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper". B. R. Haydon.

4. To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.

In a peaceful grave my corpse compose. Dryden.

How in safety best we may Compose our present evils. Milton.