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admeasurement|ædˈmɛʒ(j)ʊəmənt, -ʒər-|
[a. OFr. amesurement, occ. later spelling admesurement: see admeasure and -ment.]
1. The process of admeasuring; applying a measure in order to ascertain or compare dimensions.
a1626Bacon Hist. Alienations (J.) In some counties they are not much acquainted with admeasurement by acre. 1767T. Hutchinson Hist. Prov. Mass. Bay iii. 326 When the terror is so great, no dependance can be placed upon the admeasurement of time in any person's mind. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 134 Too low for admeasurement with Spenser.
2. Absolute or comparative dimensions; size, dimensions, proportions.
1790Burke Fr. Revol. Wks. V. 237 The middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings xxvii. 465 Accurate admeasurements in feet and cubits seem as if they must relate to a visible, not to an invisible fabric. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxii. 380 His steam-yacht Pan, of considerable admeasurement.
3. The ascertainment and apportionment of just shares in anything, as in an inheritance or a common.
1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 187 Admeasurement lies between commoners. 1650–4Ussher Annals vi. (1658) 374 A further admeasurement of corn among his army. 1691Blount Law Dict., Admeasurement is a Writ which lies, for bringing those to Reason, or a Mediocrity, that usurp more than their share. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 238 By writ of admeasurement of pasture. |