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Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with. How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.

Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

ntly plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. Swift.

ty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.

Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [Obs.] Condign and worthy praise. Udall. Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser.

Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds. If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed. Motley.

Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to.

With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. "Congenial clime." C. J. Fox.

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness. Sir J. Reynolds.

To agree; to be suitable. [Obs.] Shak.

Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.

Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding. The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. B. Jonson. Congruent figures (Geom.), concurring figures.

That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.

Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. "Conjugal affection." Milton.

lude in the meaning; to imply. Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.