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immensurable, a.|ɪˈmɛnsjʊərəb(ə)l, -ʃər-|
[a. F. immensurable (15th c. in Godef.), or ad. late L. immensūrābilis (5th c.), f. im- (im-2) + mensū rābilis mensurable.]
Immeasurable.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 426 In meit and drink, and sleip also wes he Immensurabill and out of temperance. 1612W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 18 Exorbitant desire..illimitlesse, and immensurable. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. i. iii. (1715) 23 What an immensurable space is the Firmament. 1807F. Buchanan Journ. Mysore III. 469 The rank of the different casts..the immensurable superiority of the Brahmans above the rest of mankind.
Hence immensuraˈbility, iˈmmensurableness, immensurable quality or condition.
1675Sterry Freedom Will 41 We must attribute this immenseness, or immensurableness to Him. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Immensurability, a being uncapable to be measured. |
