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to admeasure

to admeasure

9.9
To measure and give someone their share of land or property
  • verb
  • /ədˈmɛʒər/
  • Archaic
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  • When distributing the estate, the executor must admeasure each beneficiary's portion accurately.

Examples

  • The surveyor admeasured the property accurately.

  • The law requires the government to admeasure land shares fairly during a partition.

  • The court will admeasure the compensation among the rightful heirs.

  • They will admeasure the land tomorrow.

  • The law requires the government to admeasure land shares fairly during a partition.

  • When distributing the estate, the executor must admeasure each beneficiary's portion accurately.

  • The court will admeasure the compensation among the rightful heirs.

Synonyms

to allocate
vsto admeasure
92 4.5

Give parts of something, like money or time, to people for a planned purpose

measures and assigns each person's specific share, often of land or property

Surface Forms

admeasure infinitive
admeasured past
admeasured past participle
admeasuring present participle
admeasures third person singular

Morphology

admeasure = measure (semi-transparent) = ad + measure

The verb is formed by regular prefixation (ad- + measure), but the specific legal sense 'determine and allocate a share' is specialized and not directly inferable by average learners.

Etymology

Admeasure comes from the prefix ad- meaning 'to' and the word measure meaning 'to find size or amount'. So to admeasure is like 'to measure out' something for someone, which is why it means to decide and give each person their 'share'.