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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref.
     com- + mensurate.]
     1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne.
  
     2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a.
     1. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a
        common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
  
     2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
  
              Those who are persuaded that they shall continue
              forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness
              commensurate to their duration.       --Tillotson.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  commensurate
       adj : corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be
             commensurate with the time worked" [ant: {incommensurate}]

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