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proportionally, adv.|prəʊˈpɔəʃənəlɪ|
[f. proportional + -ly2.]
1. In a proportional manner or degree; in proportion; in due proportion.
1396in Scott. Antiq. XIV. 217, ii. c. [marks] to be payit in the yhere at four termes proportionaly. 1434in Exch. Rolls Scotl. IV. 567 note, Ten markkis of usuale mone of oure realme at twa termes of the yheir proporcionaly. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. iv. (1634) 297 Such a bitternesse of sorrow..as may proportionally answer the greatnesse of the fault. 1571Digges Pantom. i. xx. F iv, Yf a parallele line be drawen to any side of a triangle it shal proportionallye cut the two other sides. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind., Arts & Sc. 23 Harmonical proportion increases neither equally nor proportionally: nor do the extremes added or multiplied produce the like number with the mean. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 343 An elephant's tooth, three ells long and proportionally thick, was found on the banks of the Saal. 1880L. Stephen Pope iv. 82 His friendships were keen and his hostilities more than proportionally bitter.
†b. With due or proper proportion of parts; in a well-proportioned manner. Obs.
1651Gataker in Fuller Abel Rediv., Whitaker (1867) II. 115 A body well compact, tall of stature, upright, proportionally limbed. 1766Clarke in Phil. Trans. LVII. 78 They are..as well and proportionally made as ever I saw people in my life.
†2. Correspondingly, analogously. Obs.
a1614Donne βιαθανατος iii. (1644) 29, I presume them to speak proportionally and analogally to their other doctrine. |
