Unproportionate

a. Now rare. [UN-¹ 7, 5 b.] Disproportionate, unproportioned.

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1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxx. 109. The whole bodie … is anoyed with vnproportionate heat.

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1601. Daniel, Civ. Wars, VI. xxviii. No swelling member, vnproportionate, Growne out of forme.

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1651. H. More, Second Lash, in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 184. Where is my Fancie distorted, unproportionate, unproper?

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1679. J. Goodman, Penit. Pard., III. v. 336. That the powers and objects are mis-matched and unproportionate to each other.

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1897. Advance (Chicago), 21 Jan., 77. Unsound, unproportionate teachings.

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So Unproportionately adv., -ness.

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1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., VII. xx. p iij b/2. A man is byrefte … of his syght somtyme … for vnproporcyonat[n]es of the blacke of the eye to y^e spyryte of syghte.

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1897. Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc., IX. 22. The paralysis … progressing by degrees and sometimes unproportionately.

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