PROPORTIONATE

a. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.

2.
v.

To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.

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