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
Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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
He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
Blumenbach considered that the most important admeasurement of the skull was derivable from the shape and size of the oval, seen when the skull was viewed from above, looking vertically down upon it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
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