Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
mensuration .
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Examples
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Einbrunstiges: inbrünstiges, ardent. einich: irgend ein, any, some: ohne einich mensur.
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Ebhardt cried out that his man could fight the second mensur, -- though the wound was three needles long.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Ebhardt cried out that his man could fight the second mensur, -- though the wound was three needles long.
The Crisis — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909
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The Count was smiling as he put up his sword, his friends crowding around him, when Ebhardt cried out that his man could fight the second mensur, -- though the wound was three needles long.
The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Although this professor who had his own face scarred on the _mensur_, pleaded for a student court of honor, with power to brand acts as infamous and even to expel students, on the ground that honor had grown more inward, the traditions in favor of dueling were too strong.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Happy were those who merely exchanged the whistling blade of the student for the heavy sabre of the soldier, the green forest glade of the _mensur_ for larger battlefields and the hope of brighter fame, who, having shed an ounce of blood in defence of their student colours, could look forward to shedding all, to the last drop, for king and country.
Greifenstein 1881
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(lib. de ponder. et mensur.p. 533) pente stichereis -- the five verse-books.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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