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Word Meanings - COMMENSURATENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

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  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • CONSENTANEOUS
    Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
  • CONCURRENCE
    1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
  • COEXTENSION
    The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
  • CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
  • CHANCEFUL
    Hazardous. Spenser.
  • CHANCE
    Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
  • COINCIDENCE
    1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • CHANCELLORSHIP
    The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
  • CHANCEL
    lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
  • CONSENTER
    One who consents.
  • CONSENTANEITY
    Mutual agreement.
  • CASUALTY
    Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes
  • CHANCEABLY
    By chance.
  • CHANCERY
    1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
  • FORTUITY
    Accident; chance; casualty. D. Forbes .
  • HARMONY
    See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between
  • CONSENTIENT
    Agreeing in mind; accordant. The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson.
  • COMMENSURATENESS
    The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.
  • INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
    Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
  • PRECONSENT
    A previous consent.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • ARCHCHANCELLOR
    A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
  • DISCONSENT
    To differ; to disagree; to dissent. Milton.
  • PERCHANCE
    By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
  • MISCHANCE
    Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
  • BECHANCE
    By chance; by accident. Grafton.
  • HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
    A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay

 

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