approportionate

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English

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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 [a Bird-of-Paradise's] furniture being approportionated to the thinness of that Element [Air]?"

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