admeasure

English

Etymology

From Middle English amesure, from Anglo-Norman amesurer, admesurer, from Medieval Latin admēnsūrō. Compare Classical Latin admētior (“measure out to”).

Verb

admeasure (third-person singular simple present admeasures, present participle admeasuring, simple past and past participle admeasured)

1. (transitive or stative) To measure. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive, law) To survey and lay off a due portion to, as of dower in real estate or of pasture held in common. [from 15th c.]
3. (transitive, obsolete) To delimit, to restrain. [14th–18th c.]

Derived terms

• admeasurement
• admeasurer

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “admeasure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “admeasure, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.