Defn: Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.
COMMEASURABLE
Com*meas"ur*a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. Commensurable.]
Defn: Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton.
COMMEASURE
Com*meas"ure, v. t.
Defn: To be commensurate with; to equal. Tennyson.
COMMEMORABLE
Com*mem"o*ra"ble, a. Etym: [L. commemorabilis.]
Defn: Worthy to be commemorated.
COMMEMORATE
Com*mem"o*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Commemorating.] Etym: [L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to
remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.]
Defn: To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atterbury.
Syn.
— See Celebrate.