Pro*por"tion (?), n. [F., fr. L. proportio; pro before + portio part or
share. See Portion.]
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the
whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation;
ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.
The image of Christ, made after his own proportion.
Ridley.
Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
Sir W. Scott.
Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion
to the support which they afford to his theory.
Macaulay.
2. Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the
same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be
out of proportion. "Let us prophesy according to the proportion of
faith." Rom. xii. 6.
3. The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or
principle; equal or proper share; lot.
Let the women . . . do the same things in their proportions and
capacities.
Jer. Taylor.