a. (UN-1 7 and 5 b.)

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1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., viii. 261. March and September … are … the most unsettled and unequable of seasons.

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1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. i. § 3. 108. Unequable and irregular Motions of the Heart and Bowels.

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1763.  Phil. Trans., LIII. 245. The true (or unequable) motions of the Sun, Moon, and nodes.

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1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 45. The unequable motion of the piston moved in the common way by a crank.

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1855.  Faber, Growth in Holiness, xvii. 306. We are fluctuating and unequable in our very fears.

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  Hence Unequably adv.

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1834.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., iii. (1840), 20. As the planet moves unequably in its orbit.

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a. 1849.  Poe, Eureka, Wks. 1865, II. 180. We have now reached a point from which we behold the Universe as a spherical space, interspersed, unequably, with clusters.

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