comportable

English

Etymology

comport +‎ -able

Adjective

comportable (comparative more comportable, superlative most comportable)

  1. (obsolete) suitable; consistent
    • Wotton
      There were two ways to be deliuered, the one Historicall, by description of the principall workes, performed already in good part, by Giorgio Vasari in the Hues of Architects: The other Logicall, by casting the rules and cautions of the Art, into some comportable Method.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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