All 3 Uses of
commensurate
in
War and Peace
- The only conception that can explain the movement of the locomotive is that of a force commensurate with the movement observed.†
Chpt 15 *commensurate = proportionate
- The only conception that can explain the movement of the peoples is that of some force commensurate with the whole movement of the peoples.†
Chpt 15
- Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed.†
Chpt 15incommensurate = not proportionatestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommensurate means not and reverses the meaning of commensurate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
appropriate in proportion to