单词 | proportionably |
释义 | proportionablyadv. In a proportionable manner or degree; in proportion; proportionately. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb] > in a proportionate manner/with due proportion evena1200 proportionally1389 attemperatelyc1420 measurably1423 proportionablyc1443 proportionly1469 proportionatelyc1487 proportionable1600 commensurably1652 commensuratelya1680 answerably1713 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 239 (MED) Ech good þing is to be loued..proporcionabili more or lasse aftir þat it is more or lasse worþi and noble, and lasse or more good to þe louer. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. xxx. 34 He shal be punisshed proporcionably after the tyme of his absence. c1520 W. Peeris Proverbis (1892) 485 Yf the cordyall harpstrynge be sett proporcionably The instrument of hymself gyuethe owte swete armony. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 61 Euery one of the Paralleles in the heauen hath a lyke circle in the earthe proportionably drawen. c1600 in Shropshire Arch. Soc. (1880) 3 294 A dead childe in a coffyn wch had ij heades and one hole bodye proporshyonably the wch bodie had ij bake boanes. 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons ii. 13 in Elements Philos. Equal bodies of the same nature weigh Proportionably to their magnitudes. 1685 W. Stanley Disc. Devot. Ch. Rome 63 We take care that all these things be performed in a due measure, proportionably to the strength of the Person, and the Nature and Design of the Duty. c1720 J. Dennis Orig. Lett. (1721) II. 485 The national Virtue and publick Spirit have declin'd proportionably. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xx. 554 As he gradually advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 261 One of the head-waters of this river, twenty by thirty feet in extent and proportionably deep. 1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 107 Every occupier within the Parish is declared proportionably liable to contribute labour to the needful work. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 5 651 The facilities for supporting a family being proportionably great, and sanitation being considerably advanced, mortality among the working classes..has been very much reduced. 1978 Chem. Week (Nexis) 26 July 41 Almost one-fourth the net—on a proportionably much smaller volume—comes from catalysts. 1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 22 Area payments will be proportionably reduced in the offending countries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1443 |
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