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admeasure, v.|ædˈmɛʒ(j)ʊə(r), -ʒə(r)|
Also 4–5 amesure.
[a. OFr. amesure-r:—late L. admensūrā-re, f. ad to + mensūrā-re to measure, f. mensūra measure. Occ. refashioned after L. as admesurer in MFr., whence the established Eng. form.]
†1. To assign a measure or limit to (a thing), to keep in measure; to moderate, limit, control. Obs.
1340Ayenb. 150 He makeþ man wytvol, and wys, and amesureþ alle þing. a1450Knt. de la Tour 25 Here is a good ensaumple to amesure in this matere bothe herte and thought. 1627Sir E. Cook in Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 512 The Common-Law hath admeasured the Kings Prerogative.
†2. To apply a measure to; to measure out. Obs.
1481Earl of Worcester (Caxton) Tulle on Friendsh. iv. 7 Ne lete us amesure it [virtue] after the magnyfycence of wordes. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 5 The admeasuring of devotions by tale on beads. 1697View of Penal Laws 51 All Keel-boats..that before they be admeasured..shall carry any coal, shall be forfeited.
3. To measure out to (a person); to apportion; to assign to each claimant his rightful share.
1641Termes de la Ley 11 Where a woman is endowed..of more than she ought to have..the woman shall be admeasured, and the heire restored to the overplus. 1656J. Trapp Expos. Matt. xxii. 11 (1868) II. 233 [God] is in the assemblies of his saints..to admeasure unto them in blessing as they do to him in preparation. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Common, It recites a complaint that the defendant hath surcharged the common; and therefore commands the sheriff to admeasure and apportion it... Upon this suit all the commoners shall be admeasured. |