admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
Example Sentences
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
The middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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