[f. as prec. + -MENT; also in med.L. apportionamentum and Fr. apportionnement.]

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  1.  The action of distributing or allotting in proper proportion or suitable shares.

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1628.  Coke, On Litt., 149 b. The apportionment shall not be according to the quantity of the land, but according to the quality.

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1807.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 210. By a wiser apportionment of the custom and excise duties.

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1852.  Grote, Greece, II. lxxviii. X. 316. For the apportionment of houses and lands among the citizens.

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1861.  Mill, Utilit., v. 85. The proper apportionment of punishment to offences.

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  2.  The state or fact of being thus distributed.

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1681.  Nevile, Plato Rediv., 52. Wherever this apportionment of Lands came to be changed.

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1858.  (27 Oct.) Bright, Sp. (1876), 287. When the apportionment of the Members to the Constituencies approximates to a just arrangement.

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