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In a comfortable or comforting manner.

One who administers comfort or consolation. Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Shak.

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser.

Act or process of administering comfort. [Obs.] The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. Hakluyt.

A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury. [Obs.] Barrow.

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

Behavior; comport. [Obs.] Goodly comportance each to other bear. Spenser.

A bringing together. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

The act of strengthening. [Obs.] Bacon.

husband. Milton. He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. Dryden. The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. Thakeray. The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. Darwin.

Suitable for association or companionship. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Fellowship; association; companionship. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Twisted, or twisted together. "A contorted chain of icicles." Massinger.

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

One who makes or practices contortions.

Expressing contortion.