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
Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight
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 Daniel Defoe
To reason, is to adapt our means, that is, our knowledge, for the attainment of the end or object proposed: it is the estimate or admeasurement of these means.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by John Haslam
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