I will correct thee inmeasure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.
Alimit that cannot be exceeded; abound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)[from 14th c.]
1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Full to the utmostmeasure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.
2005, J Coarguo,Hávamál: The Words of the High One a Personal Interpretation:
but there is never found a foolish man who knows themeasure of his stomach
25 August 2009, Mike Selvey,The Guardian:
They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyondmeasure.
6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, inThe Guardian[1]:
It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with ameasure of regret about what happened toDanny Welbeck and what it means forRoy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
The act or result of measuring.
(now chiefly cooking) Areceptacle orvessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.[from 14th c.]
City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as ameasure of their progress against the 19-time champions.
Honesty is the truemeasure of a man.
Any of various standard units ofcapacity.[from 14th c.]
The villagers paid a tithe of a thousandmeasures of corn.
A unit of measurement.[from 14th c.]
1993,Scientific American, February 33.3:
The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (ameasure of molecular weight).
Thesize of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly inmake to measure.)[from 14th c.]
1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page339:
For many years the coalmeasures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.
He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we ameasure!" said young Lochinvar.
1922,Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tirelessmeasure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, ametrical foot.[from 15th c.]
The president said themeasures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that severalmeasures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
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But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines,measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
(stative) Tobe of (a certain size), tohave (a certain measurement)
ſince theymeaſure our deſerts so meane, That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares, Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes, They ſhalbe kept our forced followers, Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
1667,John Milton, “Book VII”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought canmeasure thee?
A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / Tomeasure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
1859, Ferna Vale,Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
"And for a very sensible reason; there never was but one like her; or, that is, I have always thought so until to-day," replied the tar, glancing toward Natalie; "for my old eyes have seen pretty much everything they have got in this little world. Ha! I should like to see the inch of land or water that my foot hasn'tmeasured."
To adjust by a rule or standard.
1651,Jer[emy] Taylor,The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living.[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] Francis Ashe[…],→OCLC:
To secure a contented spirit, you mustmeasure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires
(often without oroff) Toallot ordistribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
That portion of eternity which is called time,measured out by the sun.
The spelling has been modernized.
(transitive) Toregulate orcontrol (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
1912, A. Everett George,The Montessori Method, Frederick A. Stokes Co., translation of original by Maria Montessori, page110:
Tomeasure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.
1992, Edward Berenson,The Trial of Madame Caillaux, Univ of California Press,→ISBN, page17:
In its opening portrait of Madame Caillaux, the rightist and anti-CaillauxIllustration asked its readers to imagine not a wronged victim or a female ruled by emotion but a careful player whomeasured her every word.
2009 May 26, Demetra Tzanaki,Women and Nationalism in the Making of Modern Greece: The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War, Springer,→ISBN, page119:
Hemeasured his actions with a critical eye and was an exemplary citizen and householder. He was, the author explained, a simple, good man, and like all simple, good men he had an ideal[…]
