PROPORTIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportionable mean? 

• PROPORTIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PROPORTIONABLE has 1 sense:

1. proportionate

  Familiarity information: PROPORTIONABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPORTIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proportionate

Similar:

proportionate (being in due proportion)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as four hundred cooks could provide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was amazed to see such actions and behaviour in brute beasts; and concluded with myself, that if the inhabitants of this country were endued with a proportionable degree of reason, they must needs be the wisest people upon earth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty’s kingdom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For, after having been accustomed several months to the sight and converse of this people, and observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to be of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that if I had then beheld a company of English lords and ladies in their finery and birth-day clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of strutting, and bowing, and prating, to say the truth, I should have been strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees did at me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:—for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Whoever can there bring sufficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his country for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or legal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)