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Portion

Portion (portion)
n.(?)
Por"tion
[F., from L. portio, akin to pars, partis, a part. See Part, ]
  1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

    These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him! Job xxvi. 14.

    Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Tennyson.

  3. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

    The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. Luke xii. 46.

    Man's portion is to die and rise again. Keble.

  4. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.

    Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. Luke xv. 12.

  5. A wife's fortune; a dowry.
    Shak.

    Syn. -- Division; share; parcel; quantity; allotment; dividend. -- Portion, Part. Part is generic, having a simple reference to some whole. Portion has the additional idea of such a division as bears reference to an individual, or is allotted to some object; as, a portion of one's time; a portion of Scripture.

Portion

Portion (portion)
v. t.
Por"tion
  1. To separate or divide into portions or shares] to parcel; to distribute.

    And portion to his tribes the wide domain. Pope.

  2. To endow with a portion or inheritance.

    Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. Pope.













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