Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who apportions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who apportions.
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- noun One who
apportions .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kluge, the German lexicographer, hesitates between the "apportioner, measurer," and the "former [of the embryo in the womb]."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Missionaries have naturally, but incorrectly, assumed this apportioner of all things to be the suppositional “Great Spirit” of the Cherokees, and hence the word is used in the Bible translation as synonymous with God.
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The sun is called Une´ ‛ lanû´hĭ, “the apportioner,” just as our word moon means originally “the measurer.”
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Missionaries have naturally, but incorrectly, assumed this apportioner of all things to be the suppositional “Great Spirit” of the Cherokees, and hence the word is used in the Bible translation as synonymous with God.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Lachesis was the apportioner, deciding how much time for life was to be allowed for each person or being.
TotalVideoGames.com 2010
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The sun is called Une´‘lanû´hĭ, “the apportioner,” just as our word moon means originally “the measurer.”
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