(v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
(v. t.) To assist or help; to aid.
(v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.
(n.) Assistance; relief; support.
(n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.
(n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.
(n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
(n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(7) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
(8) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(9) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(10) The team working together helps the patient receive maximum benefits from treatment and to live more comfortably with his disease.
(11) In a practical sense, it seems reasonable to establish the maxillomandibular relationship with the patient in a comfortable position.
(12) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(13) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(14) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(15) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(16) A backrest adds to the comfort and support of the subject performing resistive knee exercise and should be incorporated into the design of knee exercise units.
(17) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(18) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
(19) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
(20) It was concluded that preparation to lie down, lying-down movements and comfort behaviour are suitable for the study of relationships between the use of electric cow-trainers and impaired health in cows.
Comport
Definition:
(v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.
(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.
(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
(n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Teacher-Student Relations emerged as the most important aspect of teacher comportment, followed by knowledge associated with Human Behavior, Substances, User Recognition and Referral, Prevention Curricula, and Legal Issues.
(3) The indication herewith is more founded on a possible sympathetic origin of the troubles as on the comportment psycho-affective of the patient.
(4) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
(5) In response to such pressures a change of comportment takes place which puzzles the people closest to the stricken.
(6) This parameter, despite its limited significance can serve as a working index characterising the thermoregulatory system in different groups of experimental animals of the same species providing that the actual conditions of the experiment are comporting.
(7) In the wake of these successes, some on the right are offering the left advice about how to comport themselves at these events – but do we want it?
(8) They added that Lockett’s fate “gruesomely underscores the importance of transparency, judicial oversight, and the crucial importance of keeping some doors open to death-sentenced inmates to assert their right to be executed in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment”.
(9) Two hypotheses can account for these variations: a smaller or greater adaptation of the S. mansoni stock to the rat; a change in the comportment of rats which would thus be more or exposed to reinfestations.
(10) The highest dosis of endotoxine have comported a blok in the esterification of cholesterol.
(11) The goal of this study was the observations of the comportment of 5 groups of asthmatic children, followed either with weekly ambulatory control of functional respiratory capacity or with daily control of PEF at home by Asses Peak Flow.
(12) The avoiding phenomena observed are analyzed as elementary motor perturbations rather than a disturbance of motor comportment.
(13) N. Kosciusko-Morizet (@nk_m) Comportement abject et intolérable des supporters de #Chelsea dans le métro : #racisme et ségrégation.
(14) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
(15) Clooney has a semi-cameo as the candidate himself, Governor Mike Morris, a role in which he comports himself with presidential smoothness, broken only by a dark confrontation at the end.
(16) Quandary- and rights-based procedural ethics address ethical problems and breakdown and overlook everyday ethical comportment.
(17) The 5 alpha-reductase activity was localised on the stromal comportment of the rat ovary.
(18) Comportment and most activities of daily living were preserved even when speech was unintelligible.
(19) The emotional state of the gravida shortly before childbirth has a predictive value for her comportment during parturition.
(20) The Note subsequently rejects the substituted judgment standard as a legal fiction, and endorses the best interest test which necessarily comports with the evidence, and properly accounts for the disabled person's incompetency.