long measuren.
/ˌlɒŋ ˈmɛʒə/, U.S. /ˈlɔŋ ˌmɛʒər/, /ˈlɑŋ ˌmɛʒər/ 1. Lineal measure, the measure of length or a single dimension of space; (also) a unit of lineal measurement; (in plural) a table of lineal measures. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table
compute manual1483
tariff1591
sexagenary table1594
table of multiplication1594
long measure1623
scale of numbers1630
Rudolphine Tables1635
multiplication table1657
chiliad1675
sexagesimal table1685
nautical card1700
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > the measure of length
long measure1709
1623 J. Johnson Arithmatick i. ii. sig. B6v (heading) The table of long measures.
1709 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide (1734) i. iii. 33 The least Part of a Long Measure was at First a Barly Corn.
1764 B. Franklin in L. W. Labaree Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1967) XI. 13 Were we about to order a true Standard Yard to be made for regulating Long Measure..and a true Standard Peck for other Measure, I imagine we would think of some Substance..that would be firm enough to preserve the Dimension given.
1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 131 Hectomètre..in the long measure of the new republican division, is equal to one hundred metres.
1832 P. Kelly Oriental Metrology 32 The Kanne, a liquid measure,..and the Covid, a long measure, of 182/ 15 English Inches, are used throughout the Molucca Islands.
1871 Rep. Comm. Council on Educ. p. cix, in Parl. Papers (C. 406) XXII. 1 The ‘weights and measures’ taught in public elementary schools should be only such as are really useful;—such as Avoirdupois Weight, Long Measure, Liquid Measure, [etc.].
1921 T. Nolan Kidder's Architects' & Builders' Handbk. (ed. 17) i. 34 (heading) Roman long measures.
2007 M. D. Jones PSIence x. 184 If the Long Measure (navel to foot) is defined as 1 unit, then the height of the entire body is approximately 1.618 units.
2. A verse metre consisting of iambic tetrameters grouped in four-line stanzas; = long metre n. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a; (in later use sometimes more generally) a metre consisting entirely of relatively long lines. Also: a stanza or verse composed in such a metre.
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society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > [noun] > stanza of > of four lines
long metre1707
long measure1758
1758 Monthly Rev. Oct. 383 The variety must have been apposite, as well as agreeable, by relieving us from the continual monotony of the English heroic, or long measure.
1857 Musical World 7 Mar. 149/2 A prize was offered some years ago for the best long-measure tune for Bishop Kenn's Evening Hymn.
1908 Q. Rev. Apr. 363 The ‘long measure’ is not even treated stanzaically, but presents to the eye a series of dull-looking columns of verse.
1953 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 15 146 Each line has eleven mizani or syllables, which in Swahili prosody, is a form of long-measure.
1999 H. T. Kirby-Smith Celestial Twins vi. 110 Cavalier poetry, with its neater stanzas that often fitted song meters such as common measure and long measure, continued to give a distinct impression of singability.
2004 H. Bloom Thomas Hardy 30 We have seen how Hardy..used hymnal Long Measure to raise the ghost of morality in ‘The Ruined Maid’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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