proportionable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of proportionable
1350–1400; Middle English proporcionable < Late Latin prōportiōnābilis. See proportion, -able
Example Sentences
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If carefully made, and kept three or four years, a proportionable strength being given, they would answer the purpose of foreign wines for health, and cause a very considerable reduction in the expenditure.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
A proportionable tax on houses the best source of revenue, 355.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
No appointment to office of any kind was made, except in consideration of a proportionable sum paid down into her own coffers.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
From hour to hour, the fever went on, increasing alarmingly, accompanied by a proportionable diminution of the poor patient's strength, until, at length, the awful and fatal crisis arrived.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
That the men supplied from hence be proportionable sharers with the other men belonging to said Vessels, of all purchase that shall be taken.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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