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apportioned

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ap·por·tion  (-pôrshn, -pr-)
tr.v. ap·por·tioned, ap·por·tion·ing, ap·por·tions
To divide and assign according to a plan; allot: "The tendency persists to apportion blame as suits the circumstances" (Natalie Angier).
[French apportioner, from Old French : a-, to (from Latin ad-, ad-) + portionner, to divide into portions (from portion, portion; see portion).]
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Adj.1.apportioned - given out in portions
dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out
distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up


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Almost in the cradle are we apportioned with heavy words and worths: "good" and "evil"--so calleth itself this dowry.
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(nearly always powdered), her moist eyes, and her expression of continual readiness to pass at once from melancholy to an unnatural rapture of married bliss, Boris could not utter the decisive words, though in imagination he had long regarded himself as the possessor of those Penza and Nizhegorod estates and had apportioned the use of the income from them.
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And by the light of her burning, old Bashti apportioned the loot.
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