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.
PORTIONER
Por"tion*er, n.
1. One who portions.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: See Portionist, 2.
PORTIONIST
Por"tion*ist, n.
1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; — corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.