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commensurating

commensurating is the present participle and gerund of commensurate.

Meaning of commensurate

Verb

commensurate (third-person singular simple present commensurates, present participle commensurating, simple past and past participle commensurated)

  1. (obsolete) To reduce to a common measure.
    • For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To proportionate; to adjust.
    • The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted

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Questions about commensurating

What is commensurating the present participle and gerund of?
Commensurating is the present participle and gerund of commensurate.

Words near commensurating in the dictionary

  1. commensurated
  2. commensurately
  3. commensurateness
  4. commensuraters
  5. commensurates
  6. commensurating
  7. commensuration
  8. commensurations
  9. commensurator
  10. commensurators
  11. commensurizer

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