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
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
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
