Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To coincide with; be coextensive with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To be commensurate with; to equal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To be
commensurate with; toequal .
Etymologies
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com- + measure
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Examples
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We are to understand by the truly honourable that which, setting aside all consideration of utility, may be rightly praised in itself, exclusive of any prospect of reward or compensation.] [Footnote 15: This passage is very obscurely expressed, but the general meaning is clear: "Until endurance grow sinewed with action, and the full-grown will, circled through all experiences grow or become law, be identified with law, and commeasure perfect freedom".
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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