"commeasurable" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: Compare commensurable. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} commeasurable (not comparable)
  1. Commensurate; proportional. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-commeasurable-en-adj-zpSy-Js0
  2. Synonym of comeasurable Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: comeasurable [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-commeasurable-en-adj-F4TXtY8f Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 59 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 74 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 80 4
  3. Capable of being measured. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-commeasurable-en-adj-riiquT1-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: comeasurable
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          "ref": "1670, Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume I, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Richard Marriott, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.",
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          "ref": "1818, Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, page 65:",
          "text": "East, West And South, where'er their gathered multitudes Urged by the speed of vigorous tyranny, With more than with commeasurable strength Haste to prevent the danger, crush the hopes Of rising Spain, and rivet round her neck The eternal yoke,",
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          "ref": "1845 June 7, “Religious Movements in the Old World”, in Portland Transcript, volume 9, number 8, page 62:",
          "text": "The Priest Ronge took it, and very modestly remarked that he was fully aware of the high value of the present, that his gratitude was commeasurable with the magnitude of the gift, but that he thought best to answer by deed of inestimable hint.",
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          "text": "Straight lines and commeasurable numbers are the most favourable conditions for the application of given force; but in politics, when the force exists, it has generally anticipated the diagrams of statesmen by making channels for itself.",
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