admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)

This is done by a ribbon, which she puts round the cranium, repeating during the admeasurement a certain prayer or charm from which the operation is to derive its whole efficacy.

From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

The true admeasurement, as we may learn from the inspiring story of small nations, is not geometrical but metaphysical.

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan