admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
The true admeasurement, as we may learn from the inspiring story of small nations, is not geometrical but metaphysical.
From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan
Of course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel
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