A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Portio(u)nablie, adv. [ME porcionable proportional (Chaucer).] Proportionally. —1597 Acts IV 142/2.
[That] euerie man portionablie may pay his pairt of the said taxatioun