comportable

English

Etymology

From comport +‎ -able.

Adjective

comportable (comparative more comportable, superlative most comportable)

1. (obsolete) Consistent; suitable.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Preface”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part:

     [T]here vvere tvvo vvayes to be deliuered; The one Hiſtoricall, by deſcription of the principall vvorkes, performed already in good part, by Giorgio Vaſſari in the liues of Architects: The other Logicall, by caſting the rules and cautions of this Art, into ſome comportable Methode: […]

Related terms

• comport
• comportment
• comportance
• comportation
• comportmental
• comportability
• incomportable

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “comportable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)