ratable

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He’s just a very intelligent, manageable, smart, ratable kind of horse that will do anything his rider tells him to do.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

To direct the payment, therefore, of the whole amount of those claims which happened to be first adjudicated would prevent a ratable distribution of the fund among those equally entitled to its benefits.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

On the question to be determined he would have no advantage under a special act, inasmuch as there must be a ratable disability to entitle him to any payment in pursuance of its provisions.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

As a matter of fact, the Russian idea of literary men is that they all hold some government or other appointment, on the committee of censorship, for example,--some ratable position.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The sibyl apologizingly answered: "There is a ratable and allegeable difference between a conferrable ellipsis and a trisyllabic di�resis."

From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by Hathaway, B. A.