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commensurable, a. (n.)|kəˈmɛnsjʊərəb(ə)l, -ʃər-|
[ad. L. commensūrābil-is (Boeth.) having a common measure, f. com- together + mensūrābilis that can be measured, f. mensūrā-re to measure (see -ble), f. mensūra measure, f. mens- ppl. stem of metīri to measure, mete. Also in French (Oresme 14th c.), which may be the intermediate source of the Eng.]
1. Of numbers or magnitudes: Having, or reducible to, a common measure; divisible without remainder by the same quantity. Also, in wider sense, measurable by the same standard or scale of values. Const. with, to.
1557Recorde Whetst. B j, .20. and .36. be commensurable, seyng .4. is a common diuisor for theim bothe. 1570Billingsley Euclid x. Def. i. 229 All numbers are commensurable one to another. 1827Hutton Course Math. I. 325 note, Divided into parts that are commensurable. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iii. 142 Mind is not commensurable with Space. 1870Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) p. xiii, Works of art are commensurable only when the theories which produced them have a common basis.
2. Proportionable in measure, size, amount, etc.; having a suitable proportion, proportionate to.
1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith ii. (1845) 29 His pleasure and His work are commensurable. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 490 God..hath rewards commensurable to every man's case. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 183 Such a Neck as is commensurable to their Legs. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. xv. §5 The two punishments must be perfectly commensurable.
†3. Capable of measurement, measurable (by something else). Obs.
1654Trapp Comm. Ezra vi. 9 We must not conceive that God is commensurable by any place. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. (Arts & Sc.) 12 If I see such a solid body, the Understanding judgeth whether this body be commensurable or not, by any notion..before understood.
4. as n. A commensurable quantity: also fig.
1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iv. ii. 227 Not as commensurables, measuring a greater by ourselves the less, but, etc. |