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Webster 1913 Edition

Proportionable

Pro-por′tion-a-ble

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Adj.
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.
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Pro-por′tion-a-ble-ness
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Noun.
But eloquence may exist without a
proportionable
degree of wisdom.
Burke.
Proportionable
, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers’] own coining.
Fitzed. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition

Proportionable

PROPORTIONABLE

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Adj.
That may be proportioned or made proportional. This is the true sense of the word; but it is erroneously used in the sense of proportional, being in proportion; having a due comparative relation; as infantry with a proportionable number of horse.

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