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Proportion \Pro*por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Proportioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Proportioning.] [Cf. F. proportionner. Cf. Proportionate, v.]
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To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value . . . but to the value our fancies set upon it.
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To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
Nature had proportioned her without any fault.
--Sir P. Sidney. To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
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Having a proportion. v
(en-past of: proportion)
Usage examples of "proportioned".
But infused knowledge is attributed to the soul, on account of a light infused from on high, and this manner of knowing is proportioned to the angelic nature.
She looked around at the wreckage, remembering the vast, beautifully proportioned building on its high podium of many steps, the Ionic columns all bravely painted and gilded, the metopes and pediment veritable masterpieces.
The room was generously proportioned but it looked overfull of irritated Vinlanders.
For since the body is proportioned to the soul as matter to its proper form, it is not truly human flesh if it is not perfected by human, i.
Meanwhile, the side next the sun is flooded with an aerial aureole of subtle mist, a drift of liquid gold, a gush of living light, rippling from the unrisen orb, decreasing in warmth and brilliancy, paling and fading and waxing faint with infinite gradations proportioned to the increase of distance.
Her body was almost stocky, but well proportioned, and must have been quite desirable before the Senar whipman had left his marks on it.
And there before him was a most noble woman, hauing two fethered wings set vpon hir delicate and tender shoulders, houlding hir sonne an infante naked, which sate with his little hyppes vpon the large and goodly proportioned thighes of the faire goddesse his mother, and playing with hir, as she held him vp, and putting his feete vpon a stone, as it had beene a little hill, with a fornace in a hollow hole, wherin was an extreame whote burning fire.
Sorority babes, the noted Tri- Delts were smallish but perfectly beautiful, proportioned, and mature beyond their years.
I could not imagine a more graceful curve than that of the os femoris, and there was just that due gentle prominence in the rear of the fibula which goes to the conformation of a properly proportioned calf.
But the conception of purgatory as it was held by the early Christians, whether orthodox Fathers or heretical sects, was merely the just and necessary result of applying to the subject of future punishment the two ethical ideas that punishment should partake of degrees proportioned to guilt, and that it should be restorative.
It was creamy gray, gracefully proportioned, with balustraded steps leading up to the black front door, and businesslike but decorative metal grilles showing behind the glass in every window from semibasement to roof.
Julian a liberal donative, proportioned to his rank and services, was required to cast a few grains of incense into the flame which burnt upon the altar.
An immense sugarberry tree, beautifully proportioned, casts inviting shade directly in front of the stoop.
Harry was beautifully proportioned, was already an excellent horseman and a useful performer in the tiltyard as well as in the tennis court.
He was about four feet in height, but oddly proportioned, with a bulging head and a small face and a small lower jaw and receding chin, protruding eyeballs and a huge beaklike nose.