Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-MEN'SU-RATE, a. [It. conmensurare; Sp. conmensurar, whence conmensurativo; con and L. mensura, measure.]

1. Reducible to one and the same common measure.
2. Equal; proportional; having equal measure or extent; as, we find nothing in this life commensurate to our desires.