Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of measuring; adapted for measurement, or for taking the measure of things.
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'Yes, Friends,' he elsewhere observes, 'not our logical mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one, is King over us, I might say Priest and Prophet, to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891
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