adequate, adequate

[Lat. adœ quat us, pa. par. of adæquo = to make equal; Ger. adäquat; Fr. adéquat; Sp. adecuado; Ital. adequato.] IMG:content-0166.png:[blocks in formation] It is often followed by to . "Small skill in Latin, and still le in Greek, Is more than adequate to all I seek." Cowper: Tirocinium . * ăd'-ě-quate, * ad-e-quāte, v.t. [Se the adj.] To make even or equal; to equal; to resemble exactly. (Minsheu.) "Though it be an impo ibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity "-Shelford: Discourses, p. 277. ǎd'-ě-quate-ly, adv . [ADEQUATE, a.] In an adequate manner, commensurately, suitably to, in proportion to, in correspondence with, on the level of. a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge."-Froude: Hist. Eng., ch. i. an adequately modified form of the mechanism of sound."-Tyndall: Frag. of Science, 3rd ed., vii. 133, ăd'-ě-quate-ne , s. [ADEQUATE.] The state or quality of being adequate or in just proportion to.