How To Use Admeasure In A Sentence
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It provides the only surviving record of some transactions, and it contains proprietary land grants, certificates of admeasurements, wills, leases, releases, and other documents.
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It is allowed, say the geometricians, that no mountain in height or sea in depth exceeds ten furlongs, and yet it seems probable that Xenagoras did not take his admeasurement carelessly, but according to the rules of art, and with instruments for the purpose.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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And the identification, I said, of the reasoners intellect with that of his opponent depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponents intellect is admeasured.
The Purloined Letter
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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.
The Purloined Letter
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Pollux; then the trophies of Marius; then two milliary columns which served for the admeasurement of the Roman universe; and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, noble and calm in the midst of these several recollections.
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
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They were confident they could administer to minds and hearts diseased the certain specific laid down in the book, admeasured to the twentieth part of a scruple.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860
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Such water commissioner or commissioners and the owners and users of such stored and supplemental waters shall be bound by the provisions of this chapter provided, that the admeasurements and distribution of such stored and supplemental waters shall in no way interfere with decreed water rights.
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And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured.
The Purloined Letter
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The developers were quick to point out that public access to the beach would not be blocked, because while their certificate of admeasurements shows a large part of the beach as their property, consideration was given to facilitate access during construction.
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But the highest waves have been reported off the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, where they have been observed, on rare occasions, from 30 to 40 ft high; and 36 ft. has been given as the admeasurement in the Bay of Biscay, under very exceptional circumstances.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
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The accident was harmless -- for, according to honest admeasurement, it evaded my father's foot by a full yard -- but, under nervous alarm, he swore, and, as troopers will swear, that it had descended direct upon his afflicted member, and, consequently that he was ruined for life.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
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In 1725 he "caused a plot or plan containing 360 acres of land to be admeasured and laid out in lots, which 360 acres is but part of a larger tract or parcel of land containing 1500 held by patent thereof" of the proprietors.
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
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Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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We must hold the scales of justice in equipoise, and however odious the offence, we must admeasure right to every one according to law.
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The certificates of admeasurement include the date of the precept from the surveyor general ordering the survey.
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This settlement contains, by admeasurement, 134 acres, a part of which is planted with maize, very backward, but in general tolerably good, and beautifully green.
The Settlement at Port Jackson
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And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured.
Selections from Poe
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The author utilizes the game theory mostly to analyze the automobile supply chain member's cooperative relation and study members' payoff admeasure.
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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.
The Purloined Letter
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And the reader will see (in the paragraph preceding that memorable one which winds up with the diseased oyster) that he must be a worthless creature for daring to like the book, as he could only do so from a desire to hug himself in a sense of superiority by admeasurement with the most worthless of his fellow-creatures!
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
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Of course he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.
The Purloined Letter
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And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured.
The Short-story
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But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing — at least, what untattooed parts might remain — I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.
Moby Dick; or the Whale