commensurate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMMENSURATE, adjective 1. Reducible to one and the same common measure. 2. Equal; proportional; having equal measure or extent. We fine nothing in this life commensurate to our desires. COMMENSURATE, verb transitive To reduce to a common measure.
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