3. To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.

Pro*por"tion*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being proportioned, or made

proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. --

Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n.

But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom.

Burke.

Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e.,

English writers'] own coining.

Fitzed. Hall.

Pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. Proportionally. Locke.

Pro*por"tion*al (?), a. [L. proportionalis: cf. F. proportionnel.] 1.

Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable

proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.

Milton.

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