Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A portion measured out; a dole.

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Examples

  • But it must by no means be overlooked that this "dimensum," or _monthly_ allowance, was far from being the sole allowance of food to Roman slaves.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But it must by no means be overlooked that this "dimensum," or _monthly_ allowance, was far from being the sole allowance of food to Roman slaves.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • But it must by no means be overlooked that this "dimensum," or monthly allowance, was far from being the sole allowance of food to Roman slaves.

    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses 1839

  • Minoritam quendam Anglum Oxonieasem Mathematicum in eas insulas venisse, ipsisque relictis ad vlteriora arte Magica profectu descripsisse omnia, & Astrolabio dimensum esse in hanc subiectam formam fer�, vti ex Iacobo collegimus, Euripos illos quatuor dicebat tanto impetu ad interiorem voraginem rapi, vt naues semel ingress� nullo vento retroagi possent, neque ver� vnquam tantam ibi ventum esse, vt mol� frumentari� circumagend� sufficiat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Choregeo is "to give a sufficiency of any thing;" and choregia and choregema are dimensum, "a sufficiency of provision."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Constantine, the founder of this junior Rome, had settled upon the houses of the city a claim for a weekly _dimensum_ of grain.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Magica profectu descripsisse omnia, & Astrolabio dimensum esse in hanc subiectam formam ferè, vti ex Iacobo collegimus, Euripos illos quatuor dicebat tanto impetu ad interiorem voraginem rapi, vt naues semel ingressæ nullo vento retroagi possent, neque verò vnquam tantam ibi ventum esse, vt molæ frumentariæ circumagendæ sufficiat.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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