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  • adjective Having a proportion.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of proportion.

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Examples

  • Congress in terms proportioned in their explicitness and solemnity to the conviction he entertains of the importance and inviolability of the principle involved.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) 1878

  • Every day he found them in the same place and got rid of them by a large coin proportioned to the enormity of his remorse.

    Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Their incorrectness and absurdity soon became apparent; and with a zeal, perhaps, bordering on indiscretion, he denounced them to his pupils with an ardour of manner and of expression proportioned to his own conviction of the truth.

    The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824

  • It's downright ill-proportioned which is why I think you want to pull it up.

    Pockets! - A Dress A Day 2008

  • A "proportioned" dress is one where they make allowances for short- and long-waisted people, and include three different bodice pieces to make fitting easier.

    Still thinking about shirtdresses .... - A Dress A Day 2008

  • It is a matter of some delicacy to say precisely what constitutes a person's evidence, [10] and to explain how her beliefs should be "proportioned" to it.

    Bayes' Theorem Joyce, James 2003

  • A born super model, according to Lauren Hutton (who, if you’re old enough to remember, could do some awfully nice things to a swimsuit), has a small head, a perfectly symmetrical face, superior bone structure, and a certain kind of proportioned body.

    Heidi Klum Loves Your Forkhorn 2007

  • 'proportioned' is here used proleptically, denoting the result of the action indicated by the verb 'square.'

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.”

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • Fortunately, it is being mounted in one of Broadway's most intimate and well-proportioned spaces, the 804-seat John Golden Theatre.

    A Perfect Night on Broadway Terry Teachout 2010

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  • My adjectival use: 'It is a beautifully proportioned room.'

    August 20, 2011