Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AP-POR'TION-MENT
AP-POR'TION-MENT, n.
The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a dividing and assigning to each proprietor his just portion of an undivided right or property. – Hamilton, Rep. Feb. 13, 1793.
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