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▪ I. apportion, v.|əˈpɔəʃən|
Also 6 apporcion, 7 aportion.
[a. OF. apportionner, -cionner, f. à to + portionner, f. portion portion, share.]
1. To assign (to any one) as his proper portion or share; to allot.
1587Golding De Mornay xv. 241 Euery certeine Soule must needes be apportioned and appointed to some one certeine body. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. i. §11. 17 What reward God please to apportion to it. 1824–8Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) 52 The first duty of a legislator is to apportion penalties. 1870Disraeli Lothair vii. 25 His guardians had apportioned to him an allowance..adequate to his position.
2. To assign in proper portions or shares; to divide and assign proportionally; to portion out, to share.
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 46 a, The rent service..shalbee apporcioned after the value of the land. 1703Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 111 The Matter in competition is often Indivisible. An Office, or a Mistress, can't be Apportion'd out like a Common. 1778G. Morris in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 131 A contribution..to be apportioned upon the inhabitants, according to their wealth. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xvi. §1 To apportion the expenses of production between the two.
3. To adjust according to due proportion or measure; to proportion. arch.
1615Crooke Body of Man 43 The number wee cannot better aportion, then from the nature and definition of a Principle. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 245 This seems apportioned to animal wants. 1823Lamb Elia i. xviii. (1865) 136 It was the measure for the birds to apportion their silver warblings by.
▪ II. † aˈpportion, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. vb.]
Division in just proportion.
1628Coke On Litt. 148 a, Apportion signifieth a Diuision or partition of a Rent, common, etc. |