Mensurable vs Censurable - What's the difference?
mensurable | censurable |
measurable
(music) Having a fixed rhythm.
*1998 , William Oliver Strunk & Leo Treitler,
*:Mensurable music is song measured by long and short units of time.
Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
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, year= 1648
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, title= Miscellanea Spiritualia
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, chapter= Of Scurrility
, section = 2
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, publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell
, location= London
, editor=
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, page= 144
, passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ...
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As adjectives the difference between mensurable and censurable
is that mensurable is measurable while censurable is deserving of censure; blameworthy.mensurable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Source Readings in Music History, ISBN 0393037525, p. 227.
