adv. [f. COMMENSURATE a. + -LY2.] In a commensurate manner; proportionately, correspondingly.

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a. 1679.  T. Goodwin, Wks., II. IV. 277 (R.). The law of sin and the law of the mind … are adequately and commensurately opposite.

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a. 1711.  Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 142. God will be more commensurately paid.

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1812.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXIV. 414. The sense of responsibility is commensurately enfeebled.

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  b.  So as to be commensurate.

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1694.  W. Holder, Time (J.). We … make the day serve to measure the year as well as we can, though not commensurately to each year.

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