ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 5 b.)
c. 1585. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. CXXXV. vii. What unproportion’d odds To thee, these idolls gold and silver beare?
1595. Daniel, Civ. Wars, II. xix. Huge vnproportion’d mountaines.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. iii. 60. Giue thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any vnproportion’d thought his Act.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 186. Crook-back’t men … are justly accounted unproportioned.
1712. Atterbury, Serm. (1737), IV. 216. Such a mock worship,… how unproportioned it is to the Divine Nature.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 231. A multitude of soldiers, unproportioned to the extent or fertility of Scotland.
1828. Tennyson, Lover’s Tale, I. 187. That porch, So unproportion’d to the dwelling-place.
