Definition of "admeasurement" []

• Apportionment. (noun)

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• ""For its practical value it depends upon this," replied Dupin; and the Prefect and his cohort fall so frequently, first, by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged."
• "Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents."
• "We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the microscope."