mensuro

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mensūro, 1, v. a. [mensura],

I to measure (post-class.): fossa mensuratur, Veg. Mil. 1, 25; Gromat. Vet. p. 232, 9: fines, Hilar. in Psa. 15, 8: longitudinem, Vulg. Ezech. 45, 3; 48, 30 al.—

II Trop., to measure, estimate : suas opes viresque suorum, Coripp. Laud. Just. 3, 372.

III —Hence, mensūratē , adv., by measurement , Cassiod. in Psa. 69, 5.