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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Proportion \Pro*por"tion\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Proportioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proportioning}.] [Cf. F. proportionner. Cf. {Proportionate}, v.]
1. 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. --Addison.
2. To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
Nature had proportioned her without any fault. --Sir P. Sidney.
3. To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
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