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The length of her keel for tonnage, was 86 feet; her extreme breadth, 27 feet 6 inches; her depth in hold, 12 feet; her height between decks, 6 feet, and her admeasured burden, 362 tons.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 by Collins, David

When the means are of so little splendid a quality, it will be said, by what inflation of fancy is their power admeasured to such effects?

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John

They were confident they could administer to minds and hearts diseased the certain specific laid down in the book, admeasured to the twentieth part of a scruple.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various