proportionize

English

Alternative forms

• proportionise

Etymology

proportion +‎ -ize

Verb

proportionize (third-person singular simple present proportionizes, present participle proportionizing, simple past and past participle proportionized)

1. To ensure that everything is in proper proportion to form a harmonious or properly functioning whole.
   • 1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36:

     Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.

   • 1892, Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman - Volume 2, page 12:

     The New Tesstament precepts do need, if not to be re-written, at all events to be interpreted and, as it were, proportionized, before they can be wholesomely and wisely applied to the special needs of our, or any, generation.

   • 1949, Successful Farming - Volume 47, page 132:

     They come in regular dress sizes, but are proportionized to tall, medium, and short figures.

   • 1976, Karl Marx, John Albert Dragstedt, Value: Studies, page 144:

     If a single capitalist sends money abroad where he gets 10 per cent interest, although he could provicde employment within his own country for a mass of surplus people, he deserves a civic crown from the capitalistic standpoint, since this virtuous bourgeois carries out the law which apportions capital within the world market just as within the walls of a society just in accordance with the rate of profit which particular spheres of production offer, and precisely thereby equalizes the rate of profit and proportionizes production.