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incommensurate, a.|ɪnkəˈmɛnsjʊərət, -ʃər-|
[in-3.]
Not commensurate.
1. Not of equal or corresponding measure or degree; out of proportion, disproportionate, inadequate. Const. with, to.
1684Boyle Porousn. Solid Bod. iv. Wks. 1772 IV. 780 So they be not incommensurate to its pores. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 127 ⁋10 His improvement grows continually more incommensurate to his life. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxxi. IV. 172 The four ancient tribes..had become incommensurate with the existing condition of the Attic people. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 251 That power, unfortunately, was incommensurate with their good will.
†b. Having parts or elements out of proportion; disproportioned. Obs. rare.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 186 The natural proportion of the body is depraved, and the Body made incommensurate.
2. Not having a common standard of measurement; = incommensurable.
a1687H. More (J.), The diagonal line and side of a quadrate..to our apprehension, are incommensurate. 1694Holder Disc. Time (J.), If the year comprehend days, it is but as any greater space of time may be said to comprehend a less, though the less space be incommensurate to the greater. 1864J. H. Newman Apol. 374 Difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.
Hence incoˈmmensurately adv.; also incoˈmmensurateness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Incommensurateness, incommensurable Quality. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 285 The utter incommensurateness and the unsatisfying qualities of the things around us. 1828Webster cites Cheyne for Incommensurately. 1841Blackw. Mag. XLIX. 152 The incommensurateness of Christianity, under its present developments, to embrace and to form a rest for the new mental developments of society. |