equalize, equallize

t. [Eng. equal; ize; Fr. égaliser.] 1. To make equal, even or alike as compared with another or others. "A proportion of payment, beyond all the powers of algebra to equalize and settle."- Burke : On Conciliation with America. *2. To be equal to; to equal; to match. "No woe her miserie can equallize , No griefe can match her sad calamities." J. Taylor: Siege of Jerusalem, pt. ii. *3. To represent as equal; to place on an equality. "The finest poem that we can boast, and which we equalize , and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad, is void of those fetters." -Mery: Remarks on Dr. Swift , let. 22.