Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a commensurable manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
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- adverb In a
commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Welfare spending and income-support programs will also be commensurably less as the economy expands.
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If (e.g.) any one describes what betokens and what produces health as ‘related commensurably to health’, we must not desist but go on to examine in what sense he has used the term ‘commensurably’ in each case, e.g. if in the latter case it means that ‘it is of the right amount to produce health’, whereas in the for it means that ‘it is such as to betoken what kind of state prevails’.
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"We cannot recall a single year that the department of health was commensurably or near-adequately funded."
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+ A physical body is in place commensurably (circumscriptively) inasmuch as the individual portions of its exterior surfaces answer singly to the corresponding portions of the immediately environing surfaces of the body or bodies that constitute its place.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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I sent a high-handed email pointing out that "commensurately" and "commensurably" were not the same word.
The Guardian World News Tim Dowling 2011
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On actual service, they have ever been equally reckless, but commensurably active.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Wolcot’s treatment of More provoked commensurably greater outrage, and the critics of
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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