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commensuration Now rare or Obs.|kəˌmɛnsjʊəˈreɪʃən, -ʃər-|
[a. F. commensuration (14th c. Oresme), ad. L. commensūrātiōn-em (Boeth.), f. com- together + mensūrātio measurement.]
1. The measuring of things against or in comparison with each other.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 299 By applyenge parte to parte and membre to membre, by commensuracion, as Helisey dyd reyse to lyfe the wydowes sone. 1692South Serm. (1697) I. 21 God's Omnipresence..without any commensuration of parts to any [space], or circumscription within any. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacr. i. iii. (R.), A strait and a curve line may perhaps be brought by immediate commensuration, nearer to equality than any given difference; but the equality can never be brought to a point. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 487 The minds of few can take in the whole of a great author, and fewer can draw him close enough to another for just commensuration.
†2. The action of measuring; measurement. Obs.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. 360 Such commensurations as are made in the wanderynge turnynges of such vyages. 1650Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 288 The..more Western term of Longitude, from whence the moderns begin their commensuration. 1682― Chr. Morals (1756) 38 Some cubits above the common commensuration.
†b. As a quality: Measurement, measure, magnitude, size. Obs.
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. 323 The largenes of heauen and commensuration of the earth. 1659T. Willsford Archit. 6 The true commensuration taken in Feet.
3. The action of proportioning, or fact of being proportioned; proportion, commensurateness.
1626Bacon Sylva §764 There must be a commensuration or proportion between the Body moved, and the force. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 250 Judging of Commensuration or Incommensuration of a Body. 1653Wilkins Gift of Prayer ii. (R.), He is pleased to esteem them [our services] by their commensuration to us, if in respect of our abilities they are the best. 1781W. Jones Phys. Disquis. in G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlii. 133 Where we look for commensuration, we find variety and infinity. |