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The act of eating together; table fellowship.

owship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

Commensality. [Obs.] Daniel . . . declined pagan commensation. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

tly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches.…

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

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.

See Common sense, under Sense.

; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.

Affording compensation.

One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

To compensate. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

hended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon.