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admeasure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb admeasure has 1 sense
- admeasure(v = verb.possession) Array - determine the quantity of someone's share; Array is one way to ascertain, determine, find, find out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
admeasure, v. t. [Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure.].
- To measure. [1913 Webster]
- To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. [1913 Webster]
- Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
admeasure, v.tr. apportion; assign in due shares.
Derivative
admeasurement n.
Etymology
ME f. OF amesurer f. med.L admensurare (as AD-, MEASURE)
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