commeasurable
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare commensurable.
Adjective edit
commeasurable (not comparable)
- Commensurate; proportional.
- 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:
- She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.
- 1818, Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, page 65:
- 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,
- 1845 June 7, “Religious Movements in the Old World”, in Portland Transcript, volume 9, number 8, page 62:
- 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.
- Synonym of comeasurable
- 1684, E. Cocker, Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick, page 85:
- The square Root of a mix'd Number that is commeasurable to its Root, is thus found out, viz. reduce the mix'd Number to an inproper Frađion, and then extract the square Root of the Numerator, and the square Root of the Denominator, for a new Numerator, and a new Denominator, as in the last Rule.
- 1836, John Playfair, The Element of Geometry, page 71:
- If AB and AE are commeasurable, let AG be the common measure;
- Capable of being measured.
- 1844, E. T. W. Hoffmann, “The Jesuits' Church in G—”, in Tales from the German: Specimens from the Most Celebrated Authors, page 422:
- Can we not conceive that the Deity has expressly created us, to manage for his own good purpose that which is exhibited according to measured, appreciable rules; —in a word, the purely commeasurable, just as we, in our turn build saw-mills and spinning machines,as the mechanical superintendents of our wants?
- 1846, The Foreign Quarterly Review - Volumes 36-37, page 33:
- 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.