Obs.; also 7 adæquate. [f. L. adæquāt- ppl. stem of adæquā-re to make or become level or equal; f. ad to + æquāre, f. æqu-us level, equal.]
1. To equalize; to make equal or sufficient.
1622. Fotherby, Atheomastix, II. ii. § 7. 208. A truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned into the intellectuall appetite.
1671. True Non-Conformist, 16. Adequating the guilt and punishment.
1691. E. Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Phil., 68. What adequated and priviledged him.
2. To equal, to be equal to, or sufficient for.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 29. Her sumptuous porches, and garnished buildings, are such, as no port-town in our British circumference … may suitably stake with, or adequate.
1635. Shelford, Disc., 227. Though it be an imposibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie.
1699. Phil. Trans., XXI. 291. The Husk being … divided into Five Points, Adequating the Segments of each Flower.
