Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wanting due proportion; disproportionable.
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- adjective
not proportionable .
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Examples
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Stoics attribute sterility to the obliquity of the yard, by which means it is not able to ejaculate in a due manner, or to the unproportionable magnitude of the parts, the matrix being so contracted as not to have a capacity to receive.
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I wish it were with you that you might read it, for if you thought it unproportionable for the place where it is I could be willingly diverted to make it a piece by itself, and inlarge it into the whole size of his life; and that way it would sooner be communicated to the world.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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I wish it were with you, that you might read it; for if you thought it unproportionable for the place where it is, I could be willingly diverted to make it a piece by itself, and inlarge it into the whole size of his life; and that way it would be sooner communicated to the world.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Upon an end, unproportionable, 242. to the measure of his duration, 242. or to the vastness of his desires, 243. 2.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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