Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not proportionate; not adjusted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not proportionate.
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- adjective obsolete Not
proportionate .
Etymologies
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im- + proportionate
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First, with regard to things directed to the end, inasmuch as they may be incommensurate and consequently improportionate to the end; secondly, with regard to the end itself, inasmuch as concupiscence turns man away from his due end.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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