Learned a new word today

[silverfox]

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? ...'

Verb

Formal

1. comport oneself - to behave in a specified way

2. comport with - to suit or be appropriate to [Latin comportare to collect]

Noun

A 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)

[computedshorty]

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[silverfox]

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.

[LuLu Too]

We had Comportment classes in my school.

The nuns attempt at making proper young ladies of us.

Failed in my case.

[silverfox]

Ah, I've heard of Deportment classes but not Comportment

[LuLu Too]

It was definately comportment. It was drilled in to us, especially when in uniform!

But the two are indeed very similiar

[silverfox]

Perhaps deportment is more about how one stands, moves etc (book on head while walking) and comportment is about behaviour, conduct, etiquette?

[citizenED]

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.

[silverfox]

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.

[SteveT]

Rou? debauched man: a man who regularly engages in drinking, gambling, and womanizing

2nd definition:- Man having fun and being himself IE. not being controlled by a good wife.

[SeanMacGabhann]

And to think some people call you chivalrous, Steve...

[SteveT]

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.

[Moos]

That's all right Steve, based on your last couple of posts I don't think you're in any danger.

[mockney piers]

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.

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As in 'under the circumstances his offtopication is perfectly cromulent'

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Reckon you're making that one up. Never heard of it!

[mockney piers]

Wasn't me guvnor. Clearly you're too high brow PGC, aim lower.

[Brendan]

Is indignance a perfectly cromulent word then?

[mockney piers]

It wasn't meant to come across like that, perhaps I should embiggen my sense of humour.

[Brendan]

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.

[HAL9000]

Duh! I've just read that the word cromulent itself is incromulent!

[mockney piers]

Oh I see as opposed to indignation. I guess it falls within the bounds of cromulence, though equally it could just he incorrect.

[Brendan]

Would colloquial usage cromulise it?

[HAL9000]

Hmmm. Wouldn't that only embiggen cromulent's cromularity?

[Brendan]

I think I?m incorrect. Cromulance isn?t reliant on usage.

[Moos]

I've just used the word discombobulation without bothering to look it up first, and wonder whether it might mean becoming less like *Bob*.