silverfox Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 comport As in '... But Judge Jed Rakoff refused to sign off the settlement, which he said ?does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality? ...' VerbFormal 1. comport oneself - to behave in a specified way 2. comport with - to suit or be appropriate to [Latin comportare to collect]NounA large, covered glass bowl on a stem, which can be used as a serving piece for compotes(see http://www.replacements.com/thismonth/images/deans_corner_comport_x.jpg and updated post on page 4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
computedshorty Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 There seems to be quite a wide band of definitions for it. com?port (km-p?rt, -prt)v. com?port?ed, com?port?ing, com?ports v.tr.To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: Comport yourself with dignity.v.intr.To agree, correspond, or harmonize: a foreign policy that comports with the principles of democracy.[Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, to conduct, from Latin comportre, to bring together : com-, com- + portre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.] The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ?2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuLu Too Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 We had Comportment classes in my school.The nuns attempt at making proper young ladies of us.Failed in my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Ah, I've heard of Deportment classes but not Comportment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuLu Too Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 It was definately comportment. It was drilled in to us, especially when in uniform!But the two are indeed very similiar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Perhaps deportment is more about how one stands, moves etc (book on head while walking) and comportment is about behaviour, conduct, etiquette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I like the word comport: it'll be added to my vocab. henceforth.I came accross another new word recently. Take a look at this report of Serena William's recent outburst:According to the Grand Slam Rule Book, unsportsmanlike conduct when referred to the Grand Slam committee can be treated as "aggravated behaviour", which "is flagrant and particularly injurious to the success of a Grand Slam, or is singularly egregious"."egregious" in a set of sporting rules; now that is class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 Just came across another word today that is new to me (but maybe not to the erudite and French speaking members of the Forum).Rou?As in: "Alan Clark, the notorious parliamentarian and rou?, left behind a cache of explosive material for his biographer, Ion Trewin" rou?? [ roo ?y ] (plural rou??s) noun Definition: debauched man: a man who regularly engages in drinking, gambling, and womanizing ( literary ) [Early 19th century. < French< past participle of rouer "break on the wheel" (a medieval instrument of torture) < Latin rotare (see rotate)] Word History The term rou? is thought to stem from Philip, duke of Orl?ans and regent of France (1715-1723), who humorously designated his debauched companions as rou?s, either to suggest that they deserved to be broken upon the wheel or because their behaviour was so exhausting that they felt they had undergone this torture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Rou? debauched man: a man who regularly engages in drinking, gambling, and womanizing2nd definition:- Man having fun and being himself IE. not being controlled by a good wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 And to think some people call you chivalrous, Steve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who?First I've heard of it.Anyway I always wanted to be infamous, it's always sounded much more exciting than being chivalrous Sean.It's rather like a woman you fancy telling her best friend that you're 'nice'.You will never get under the covers with her with that unfavourable description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 That's all right Steve, based on your last couple of posts I don't think you're in any danger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 cromulent :(cr?m-y?-lənt)1. (adj.) Being well-formed; legitimate; of a word, especially a neologism, that is not previously attested in the language but obeys its rules of word-formation.?As in 'under the circumstances his offtopication is perfectly cromulent' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Reckon you're making that one up. Never heard of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Wasn't me guvnor. Clearly you're too high brow PGC, aim lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Is indignance a perfectly cromulent word then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 It wasn't meant to come across like that, perhaps I should embiggen my sense of humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 No I wasn?t suggesting that you were being indignant or indeed possessing any indignance.I was just applying the rules to noun which is oft? considered incorrect. I see you have been on the same website as me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL9000 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Duh! I've just read that the word cromulent itself is incromulent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Oh I see as opposed to indignation. I guess it falls within the bounds of cromulence, though equally it could just he incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Would colloquial usage cromulise it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL9000 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Hmmm. Wouldn't that only embiggen cromulent's cromularity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I think I?m incorrect. Cromulance isn?t reliant on usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I've just used the word discombobulation without bothering to look it up first, and wonder whether it might mean becoming less like *Bob*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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