Admeasured

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To be measured or assessed carefully; to be allotted or assigned a specific amount or portion; to be evaluated or judged by a standard
2. Having been closely quantified or distributed in a controlled manner; having received a determined share or portion; having been appraised or considered according to criteria
3. Describes the action of being precisely sized or allocated; indicates having been portioned out or designated; references being appraised or evaluated systematically

Etymology: "Admeasured" is the past tense and past participle of "admeasure," a verb meaning to measure out or apportion something, often a share or allowance. The word is a verbal inflection of that base, so its history is really the history of "admeasure," which reached Middle English as "amesure," borrowed from the Anglo-Norman "amesurer" or "admesurer." Behind those forms stands the Medieval Latin "admēnsūrō," which itself draws on the Classical Latin verb "admētior," meaning to measure out to someone or something. The Latin root is the key to the word's sense. The prefix "ad-" points toward a recipient, while the core verb concerns measuring, so an admeasurement was originally an act of dividing a quantity and assigning each part to its owner. That fits the legal and economic uses that dominated the word's early life, when portions of land, common rights, or charges were fixed by measurement. The sense of evaluating or appraising in the modern definition grows naturally out of that allocating idea, since determining a fair share requires first judging how much each part should be.

Synonyms: measured, calculated, assessed, gauged, evaluated

Antonyms: estimated, guessed, approximated, ignored, neglected