commeasurable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of commeasurable
First recorded in 1660–70; com- + measurable
Example Sentences
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Can we not conceive that the Deity has expressly created us, to manage for his own good purpose that which is exhibited according to measured, appreciable rules;—in a word, the purely commeasurable, just as we, in our turn build saw-mills and spinning-machines, as the mechanical superintendents of our wants?
From Project Gutenberg
I hold he developed the word logically from an arbitrary assumption that the whole universe of being was reducible to measurable and commeasurable and exact and consistent expressions.
From Project Gutenberg
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