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proportionable, a.|prəʊˈpɔəʃənəb(ə)l|
[a. OF. *proporcionable (assumed from the adv. in -ment, 1319 in Godef.), or ad. med.L. *prōportiōnābil-is (assumed from the adv. -iter, Boeth.), f. prōportiōnāre (see proportion v.) + -ābilis, -able.]
1. That is in due proportion; corresponding, agreeable, commensurate, proportional.
a. in number, amount, or degree.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. metr. ix. 87 (Add. MS.), Þou byndest þe elementz by noumbres proporcionables [Camb. MS. porcionables]. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 83 The partys of thys body be not proporcyonabul one to a nother. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. ii. 125 For vs to leuy power Proportionable to th' enemy, is all impossible. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxii. (1739) 123 No more of the Inheritance can be conveyed to any of the Children, than their proportionable parts will amount unto. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. i. i. 181 Twenty pillars six fathoms round of a proportionable height. 1808J. Webster Nat. Philos. 17 The cohesive force is proportionable to the number of parts that touch each other. a1832Mackintosh Life Sir T. More Wks. 1846 I. 424 When his son with a wife, three daughters with their husbands, and a proportionable number of grandchildren, dwelt under his patriarchal roof.
†b. in nature, quality, or function: Suitable, appropriate; consonant, agreeable; analogous. Obs.
1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. F ij, They..engendre bludde specialye proportionable to the harte. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706) 107 The Lord maketh a mans body proportionable to the spirit that he will put into it, and fitteth the spirit to the ability of the body. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. iv. 61 They have their species perpetuated by a spiritual substance proportionable to seed. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. iii. (1762) 44 That it has a Cause proportionable and agreeable to the Effect.
†2. Music. Of sounds: Having definite relations of pitch and length. Obs.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot., Franchinus Gausurius [defineth music] thus..A disposition of proportionable soundes deuided by apt distances. 1604T. Wright Passions v. iv. 197 The harmony of proportionable voices and instruments, which feed the eare. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 105 They had an artificiall manner of clapping their hands, to a certain measure or proportionable tune.
3. Well-proportioned; symmetrical. Obs. or arch.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iv. viii. 267 Nature having done her part in giving him proportionable lineaments. 1658Hist. Christina Alessandra Qu. Swedland 353 She [Christina]..is in her gestures and motion most comely and gracious, of a proportionable stature, a fresh colour, and royall features. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 65 It is about eight inches long and every way proportionable.
†4. Relative, comparative. Obs.
1654Fuller Two Serm. 34 Each of them [Jeremiah and Baruch] by proportionable Computation, above sixtie yeares of age. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. II. xvii. §10 The Consequences that we have deduced touching the proportionable Gravity of Water and Quicksilver. 1787R. Burrowes in Trans. R. Irish Acad. Pref. 12 The proportionable density of the air at its various distances from the surface of the earth.
†5. Capable of being proportioned. Obs. rare—1.
1653Milton Hirelings Wks. 1851 V. 355 The Laborer; worthy somtimes of single, somtimes of double Honor, not proportionable by Tithes.
†B. as adv. = proportionably. Obs.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 863 That there be nothing found out of order or lacking..which euery shippe proportionable to her burthen ought to haue. 1645Evelyn Diary Feb., A roome of about 10 paces long, proportionable broad and high. 1681tr. Belon's Myst. Physick 16 Add..of all proportionable to the quart of Wine contained in the Vessel. |