admeasure
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In order to be able to admeasure this sufficiently, prehistoric studies are advisable, nay, necessary.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
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
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 David Collins
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 John Foster
