资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Proportionate \Pro*por"tion*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Proportionated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proportionating}.] [Cf.
   {Proportion}, v.]
   To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate,
   or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to
   proportionate punishment to crimes.