Obs. rare. [a. OF. comparition (mod.F. comparution), corresp. to L. type *compāritiōn-em, f. compārēre to appear: cf. COMPEAR.] An appearance, esp. before a tribunal, etc.
1611. Cotgr., Comparition, a comparition: an apparance, appearing, or representing of himselfe to open view.
1616. Brent, Sarpi’s Counc. Trent (1676), 109. Don Diego, after his first comparition, had never spoken so much as one word.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxxix. 325. Summonings, Comparitions, Appearances.
