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Compart vs Comport - What's the difference?

compart | comport |

In obsolete terms the difference between compart and comport

is that compart is to divide and share with others while comport is manner of acting; conduct; deportment.

As a noun comport is

manner of acting; conduct; deportment.

compart

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To divide and share with others.
  • To divide into smaller parts; to divide into compartments.
  • To arrange or lay out according to a plan, with due distribution and disposition of parts.
  • :If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...

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    comport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, ambitransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with).
    • to comport with an injury
  • * Daniel
    • The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport .
  • To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.
    • The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
  • * John Locke
    • How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.
  • (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner).
    • She comported herself with grace.
  • * Burke
    • Observe how Lord Somers comported himself.

    Synonyms

    * cohere * carry

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; deportment.
    • I knew them well, and marked their rude comport . — Dryden.
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