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Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

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

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

Of or pertaining to a cynosure.

Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.

The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.

The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability.

Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. Of depth immeasurable. Milton.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.

The quality of being immensurable.

Immeasurable. What an immensurable space is the firmament. Derham.

Unmeasured; unlimited. [R.] W. Montagu.

Not censurable. Dr. T. Dwight. -- In*cen"sur*a*bly, adv.

The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid.

Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. They are q…

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

oper to be insured. The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. Walsh.