0 to behave in a particular way:
1 If an idea or statement, etc. comports, it matches or is similar to something else:
I must tell him that it is incorrect, and that all our labour attachés comport themselves in the most correct manner.
I shall endeavour to comport myself in accordance with that example.
I have every confidence that they will comport themselves accordingly.
She comports herself with noble moderation in this private colloquy with a man she fears and yet despises, commencing with nothing but an appeal to his clemency and mercy.
Tipping the scales at nearly 157 pages, the complaint hardly comports with the principles of brevity......
Such projecting has nothing to do with comporting oneself toward a plan that has been thought out.
We are a law school where what is taught comports with history, objective reality, morality, and common sense.
We shall permanently be in deficit on our overseas account, always be exposed to violent fluctuations due to foreign financiers' doubts on how we are comporting ourselves.
