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Definition: COMPORTED |
COMPORTEDImperative & past participle1. Of Comport |
Date "COMPORTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And this is the power men generally have to bestow their estates on those who please them best; the possession of the father being the expectation and inheritance of the children, ordinarily in certain proportions, according to the law and custom of each country; yet it is commonly in the father's power to bestow it with a more sparing or liberal hand, according as the behaviour of this or that child hath comported with his will and humour. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Their manners comported with all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the ancient regime itself, buried, but living. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "COMPORTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMPORTED" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "COMPORTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | betrug sich. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | omportedcay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"COMPORTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comporter, computrac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-m-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: promoted. | |
-2 letters: comport, compote, compted, coopted, motored, promote, torpedo, tromped, trooped. | |
-3 letters: coempt, comedo, comped, cooped, cooper, cooter, copter, deport, doctor, moored, mooted, mooter, ported, redtop, romped, roomed, rooted, tomcod, trompe. | |
-4 letters: coder, comer, comet, compo, compt, comte, cooed, cooer, coopt, coped, coper, cored, coted, credo, crept, decor, depot, doper, doter, droop, dropt, metro. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-m-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: computerdom, proctodaeum. | |
+3 letters: computerdoms, proctodaeums. | |
+4 letters: contemporized. | |
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