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comportment Now rare.|kəmˈpɔətmənt|
[a. F. comportement bearing, behaviour, f. comporter: see -ment.]
1. Personal bearing, carriage, demeanour, deportment; behaviour, outward conduct, course of action. † Formerly also in pl., Proceedings, conduct.
1599Sandys Europae Spec. 152 Urban VIII..very magnificall and ceremoniall in his outward comportment. 1605Camden Rem. 213 Whosoever will..consider the comportment of the English Nation. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 157 The better to maintaine their high state and comportement. 1647Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 468 He will..make his comportment fuller of decency and majesty. 1650Howell Masaniello i. 126 The causes of his tyrannicall comportments. 1756W. Toldervy Two Orphans I. 96 His Christian and religious comportment in his sickness.
†b. So c. of oneself, comportment of one's body. Obs.
1657Divine Lover 16 Exacter obseruance of our Regular Discipline, and other good externe comportment of ourselues. 1663Cowley The College, A graceful comportment of their bodies.
†c. Dealing with a person. Obs.
1697J. Serjeant Solid Philos. 272 A Summary of our Comportment with all others of our own kind. a1734North Lives (1826) II. v. 152 A due account of his nearer comportment with his Majesty upon the subject of the new methods. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 25 As to his comportment with Clanricarde Taaffe and the Irish.
d. Of a thing: ‘Behaviour’, manner of comporting itself (under specified conditions).
1845Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. xiii. 137 Its comportment before the blowpipe.
†2. ? Something officially carried or borne. Obs.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 487 The Pastorall Staffe..being their onely comportment.
†3. Accordance, consistent action. Obs. rare.
1675Howe Living Temple Wks. (1834) 99 a, The whole course of Divine dispensation..imports a steady Comportment with this necessity. |