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mensurable, a.|ˈmɛnsjʊərəb(ə)l, mɛnʃ(j)ʊər-|
[a. F. mensurable, ad. late L. mēnsūrābil-is, f. mēnsūrāre to measure, f. mēnsūra measure n.: see -able.]
1. Capable of being measured; hence, having assigned limits.
1604T. Wright Clymact. Years 5 Loe thou hast put my dayes mensurable. 1694Holder Disc. Time 19 The Solar Month..[is] not easily Mensurable. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxiv. 20 Every atom..has extension, which we may suppose to have mensurable proportions. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 32 It is only our mortal duration that we measure by visible and mensurable objects. 1881Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ 146 It was altogether a most manifest and mensurable thing.
†2. Just, fair: cf. measurable a. 1. Obs.
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 150 It [hospitality] is to shewe ones selfe not to be ingratfull but mensurable and equitable to all the world.
3. Mus. Having ‘measure’ and fixed rhythm, with notes and rests indicating a definite duration: used to denote the style (cantus or musica mensurabilis, ‘descant’) which succeeded the period of simple plain-song, and in which a combination of independent voice-parts was first employed.
Cf. measured 3 c, measurable 5 b, mensural 2.
1782Burney Hist. Mus. II. 179 Ravenscroft..tells us boldly that he [sc. Franco] was the inventor of the four first simple notes of Mensurable Music. 1893Shedlock tr. Riemann's Dict. Mus., Mensurable Music. 1901Wooldridge Oxf. Hist. Mus. I. 169 Mensurable melody.
Hence ˈmensurableness, mensurable quality.
1727in Bailey vol. II. |