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disproˈportionable, a.
[f. prec. + -able.]
Out of due or symmetrical proportion; disproportionate.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 283 So was the kings action proportionable to his estate and therefore decent, the Philosophers, disproportionable both to his profession and calling and therefore indecent. 1640Wilkins New Planet vi. (1707) 209 Such an incredible Celerity, as is altogether disproportionable to its Bigness. a1717Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 136 Seeing..the good and evil things of this Life and of the next are so vastly disproportionable. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 124 Its belly is, in largeness, very disproportionable to its body. |