admeasure

American  

[ad-mezh-er] / ædˈmɛʒ ər /

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.

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admeasure British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• admeasurement
  noun
• admeasurer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of admeasure

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

Example Sentences

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admeasure admeasured

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

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

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.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

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.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David

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?

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John