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Word Meanings - COMPORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bear or endure; to put up ; as, to comport with an injury. 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

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1. To bear or endure; to put up ; as, to comport with an injury. 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.

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  • ADMITTER
    One who admits.
  • COALESCE
    1. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce. 2. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other
  • CONSENTANEOUS
    Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
  • ASSENTATORY
    Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • CONSORTSHIP
    The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
  • CONSORT
    A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
  • BESEEMING
    1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
  • TALLYHO
    1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • CONFORMABLE
    1. Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to. The fragments of Sappho give us a taste of her way of writing perfectly conformable with that character. Addison.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • CONCURRENCE
    1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
  • ASSENTER
    One who assents.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • ADJUSTIVE
    Tending to adjust.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • ACCORDANCY
    Accordance. Paley.
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • ACCIDENTALLY
    In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • PRECONSENT
    A previous consent.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • ALIMENTALLY
    So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

 

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