COMMENSURATION

Noun

commensuration (countable and uncountable, plural commensurations)

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

Source: Wiktionary


Com*men`su*ra"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. commensuration.]

Definition: The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SUCH

(adjective) of so extreme a degree or extent; “such weeping”; “so much weeping”; “such a help”; “such grief”; “never dreamed of such beauty”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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