admeasurement

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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The phenomenon had not been explained—the instruments had not yet been invented which could fathom its depths, or take the admeasurement at the meridian.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches.

From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)

He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony