commeasurable

Adjective

commeasurable (not comparable)

1. Commensurate; proportional.
   • She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done.1670, Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume I, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Richard Marriott, […], →OCLC
   • East, West And South, where'er their gathered multitudes Urged by the speed of vigorous tyranny, With more than with commeasurable strength Haste to prevent the danger, crush the hopes Of rising Spain, and rivet round her neck The eternal yoke,1818, Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths, page 65
2. Synonym of comeasurable.
   • The square Root of a mix'd Number that is commeasurable to its Root, is thus found out, viz. reduce the mix'd Number to an inproper Frađion, and then extract the square Root of the Numerator, and the square Root of the Denominator, for a new Numerator, and a new Denominator, as in the last Rule.1684, E. Cocker, Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick, page 85
   • If AB and AE are commeasurable, let AG be the common measure;1836, John Playfair, The Element of Geometry, page 71

   Synonyms:

   comeasurable

3. Capable of being measured.
   • Can we not conceive that the Deity has expressly created us, to manage for his own good purpose that which is exhibited according to measured, appreciable rules; —in a word, the purely commeasurable, just as we, in our turn build saw-mills and spinning machines,as the mechanical superintendents of...1844, E. T. W. Hoffmann, “The Jesuits' Church in G—”, in Tales from the German: Specimens from the Most Celebrated Authors, page 422
   • Straight lines and commeasurable numbers are the most favourable conditions for the application of given force; but in politics, when the force exists, it has generally anticipated the diagrams of statesmen by making channels for itself.1846, The Foreign Quarterly Review - Volumes 36-37, page 33