Definition of "admeasure" [ad•meas•ure]

• To divide and distribute proportionally; apportion. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The entry in the Argyll and Bute volume of Buildings of Scotland ends with the words, “… the extent to which architecture and landscape together admeasure the sublime.”"
• "In order to be able to admeasure this sufficiently, prehistoric studies are advisable, nay, necessary."