approportionate

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English

Etymology

From ap- (form of ad- (to)) + proportionate.

Verb

approportionate (third-person singular simple present approportionates, present participle approportionating, simple past and past participle approportionated)

  1. to render proportionate; to proportion.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 78:
      "... the extreme lightness of her furniture being approportionated to the thinness of that Element ?"

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