admeasure

[ad-mezh-er]

verb (used with object)

admeasured, admeasuring 

1. to measure off or out; apportion.

2. Nautical.,  to measure the dimensions and capacity of a vessel, as for official registration.

admeasure

/ ædˈmɛʒə /

verb

1. to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion

2. (tr) to determine the dimensions, capacity, weight, and other details of (a vessel), as for an official registration, documentation, or yacht handicap rating

Other Word Forms

• admeasurement noun
• admeasurer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of admeasure¹

1300–50; Middle English amesuren < Middle French amesurer, with ad- replacing a- ⁵; measure

Word History and Origins

Origin of admeasure¹

C14: amesuren, from Old French amesurer, from mesurer to _measure ; the modern form derives from _ad- + _measure

Example Sentences

The length of her keel for tonnage, was 86 feet; her extreme breadth, 27 feet 6 inches; her depth in hold, 12 feet; her height between decks, 6 feet, and her admeasured burden, 362 tons.

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They were confident they could administer to minds and hearts diseased the certain specific laid down in the book, admeasured to the twentieth part of a scruple.

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When the means are of so little splendid a quality, it will be said, by what inflation of fancy is their power admeasured to such effects?

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In order to be able to admeasure this sufficiently, prehistoric studies are advisable, nay, necessary.

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