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Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton.

The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.

In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large. Sir I. Newton.

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

In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.

Without purport or meaning.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. 'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. Sir W. Temple. En` rap`port" ( Etym: [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympat…

To apportion again.

A second or a new apportionment.

To export again, as what has been imported.

The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

To importune again.

Both renal and portal. See Portal.

To refer. [Obs.] Baldwin, his son, . . . succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.