Definition of "proportioned" []

• Having a proportion. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of proportion. (verb)

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• "Congress in terms proportioned in their explicitness and solemnity to the conviction he entertains of the importance and inviolability of the principle involved."
• "Every day he found them in the same place and got rid of them by a large coin proportioned to the enormity of his remorse."
• "Their incorrectness and absurdity soon became apparent; and with a zeal, perhaps, bordering on indiscretion, he denounced them to his pupils with an ardour of manner and of expression proportioned to his own conviction of the truth."