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Latin
Etymology
From amussis (“carpenter's rule”).
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Pronunciation
Adverb
examussim (comparative examussius, superlative examussissimē)
- according to the carpenter's rule, exactly, precisely, perfectly
c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE,
Plautus,
Amphitryon 2.2:
- Sos. Ne ista edepol, si haec vera loquitur, examussim est optima.
- Sosia. Surely she, by Pollux, if this woman speaks truthful things, is exactly perfect.
c. 125 CE – 180 CE,
Apuleius,
Metamorphoses 2.30:
- Utque fallaciae reliqua convenirent, ceram in modum prosectarum formatam aurium ei adplicant examussim nasoque ipsius similem comparant.
- And so that their deceits might agree with the rest, they apply to him wax formed exactly in the manner of cut-off ears, and prepare a nose similar to his own.
- 1723, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, De Structura Diaphragmatis (On the Structure of the Diaphragm), Philosophical transactions, The Royal Society, v. 32, no. 379, p. 404:
Ut autem eorum omnium quae modo narravi, testem haberem ocularem; microscopium istud, cui dictas Diaphragmatis particulas applicaveram, Chirurgo meo tradidi; qui dicta mea cum iis quae videbat, examussim convenire respondit.- So that, however, of all those things which I have presently related, I might have an optical witness, I passed to my Surgeon the very microscope to which I had applied the stated particles of the Diaphragm, who replied that my statements exactly agreed with the things he was seeing.
See also
References
- “examussim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- examussim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.