v. [f. COM- + MEASURE v.]
1. trans. To measure as an exact equivalent; to equal in measure, be coextensive with.
1614. Bp. Hall, No Peace with Rome, § 18. What an absurd opposition is this … that a thing should be fitly commeasured by one place, and yet be in almost infinite. Ibid. (a. 1656), Soul’s Farewell, 12. See all this happiness not limited to thousands nor yet millions of years, but commeasured by no less than eternity.
c. 1832. Tennyson, Œnone, 164. Until … the full-grown will, Circled thro’ all experiences, pure law, Commeasure perfect freedom.
2. To measure (a thing) with (another).
a. 1861. Clough, Early Poems, xiii. 38. A love, wherewith commeasured this Is weak and beggarly.
