admeasure
(verb) determine the quantity of someone’s share
Source: WordNet® 3.1
admeasure (third-person singular simple present admeasures, present participle admeasuring, simple past and past participle admeasured)
(transitive) To measure.
(transitive) To apportion.
(transitive, law, obsolete) To survey and lay off a due portion to, as of dower in real estate or of pasture held in common.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*meas"ure, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure.]
1. To measure.
2. (Law)
Definition: To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.
2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.
3. (Law)
Definition: Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
