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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
admeasure .
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Examples
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
The Purloined Letter 2006
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson
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They were confident they could administer to minds and hearts diseased the certain specific laid down in the book, admeasured to the twentieth part of a scruple.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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In 1725 he "caused a plot or plan containing 360 acres of land to be admeasured and laid out in lots, which 360 acres is but part of a larger tract or parcel of land containing 1500 held by patent thereof" of the proprietors.
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And the identification, I said, of the reasoners intellect with that of his opponent depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponents intellect is admeasured.
The Purloined Letter 1917
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
The Purloined Letter 1845
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
Tales. 1845
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"And the identification," I said, "of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured."
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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