commeasure
English
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[edit]commeasure (third-person singular simple present commeasures, present participle commeasuring, simple past and past participle commeasured)
- (transitive) To be commensurate with; to equal.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 126:
- Dangers, and deeds, until endurance grow / Sinew'd with action and the full-grown will, / Circled thro' all experiences, pure law, / Commeasure perfect freedom.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “commeasure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)