different between assent vs comport

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: ascent

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

Verb

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.

   • And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

Synonyms

• (give approval): consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true): affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

Related terms

Translations

Noun

assent (countable and uncountable, plural assents)

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

Synonyms

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

Related terms

• assentor

Translations

Anagrams

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

Latin

Verb

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ass?

English

Etymology

From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

comport (third-person singular simple present comports, present participle comporting, simple past and past participle comported)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with). [16th–19th c.]

   to comport with an injury

   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, The First Four Books of the Civil Wars

     The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.

2. (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. [from 16th c.]

   The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.

   • How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.

   • 1707, John Locke, A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul

     How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.

3. (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner). [from 17th c.]

   She comported herself with grace.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.

Synonyms

• (be in agreement): cohere
• (behave): carry oneself, bear oneself

Translations

Noun

comport

1. (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; deportment.

   • I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.

Catalan

Etymology

From comportar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?p??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?p?rt/

Noun

comport m (plural comports)

1. conduct, behaviour

Further reading

• “comport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?port]

Verb

comport

1. first-person singular present indicative of comporta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of comporta