admeasure

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English amesure, from Anglo-Norman amesurer, admesurer, from Medieval Latin admēnsūrō. Compare Classical Latin admētior (“measure out to”). === Verb === admeasure (third-person singular simple present admeasures, present participle admeasuring, simple past and past participle admeasured) (transitive or stative) To measure. [from 15th c.] (transitive, law) To survey and lay off a due portion to, as of dower in real estate or of pasture held in common. [from 15th c.] (transitive, obsolete) To delimit, to restrain. [14th–18th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== References ==== William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “admeasure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “admeasure, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.