Obs. [f. prec.: see -ATE3: cf. mensurate and L. mensūrāre to measure.]
1. intr. To be of the same measure or extent with; to agree or ‘square’ with. (rare.)
1643. R. O., Man’s Mort., i. 5. Let us see how it commensurates with the vniversallity of Scripture and Reason. Ibid., v. 21. Being only commensurates with Time, or length of dayes.
2. trans. To make commensurate; to proportion; to make to correspond in nature.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 481/2. Nature … hath equally commensurated the Senses according to the Sensibles.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks., II. III. 81 (R.). Fitly and suitably commensurated and proportioned each to other.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 19. I … will … To Loveliness immense, commensurate my Love.
3. To reduce to a measure or standard; to define the extent of; to put a measure to; to measure.
1646. Jenkyn, Remora, 30. His designe shall commensurate his reformation, gives it leave to go to such a degree and no further.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. vii. 312. The aptest termes to define or commensurate the longitude of places.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 421/1. Before the World there were … neither year nor seasons, by which this generable World is commensurated.
