| 释义 |
▪ I. † diˈmense, n. Obs.
[ad. med.L. dīmens-um q.v. below.]
A space measured out, an extent.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 426 Having compassed all Europe, our Resolution, was to borrow a larger dimmense [1682 dimense] of ground in Affricke.
▪ II. † diˈmense, v. Obs.
[f. L. dīmens- ppl. stem of dīmetīrī to measure out, f. dī-, dis- (dis- 1) + metīrī to measure.]
trans. To measure out.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 217 It sufficeth some, to have things delivered unto them in a generality, which others must have dimensed out unto them..peece after peece. |