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
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)
But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
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
The amount of blood drawn should never be determined by admeasurement, but by constitutional effect—the lowering of the pulse, and indications of weakness.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
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