1. In an unequal manner; not equally or evenly.
1548. Elyot, Inæqualiter, vnequally.
1563. Golding, Cæsar, VII. (1565), 208 b. The Romanes were vnequallye matched, both in place and number.
1611. Bible, 2 Cor. vi. 14. Be ye not vnequally yoked together with vnbeleeuers.
1665. Manley, Grotius’ Low C. Wars, 417. All this Region is divided, though somewhat unequally, between wild Beasts, and these Savage men.
1726. Monro, Anat. Bones, 149. The square bone is unequally concave…. Its … Edge is unequally ragged.
1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., i. (1782), I. 23. That great peninsula [Spain], at present so unequally divided between two sovereigns.
1831. Brewster, Optics, iv. 40. Rule for finding the principal focus … for a glass unequally convex.
1880. Geikie, Phys. Geog., iv. 284. The rocks … are worn down unequally.
† 2. Unfairly, unjustly. Obs.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 14. Damning all Wrong … Which any of thy creatures doe to other (Oppressing them with power, vnequally).
