equivocatory (ekwivokatori)

[ I know your equivocks , You are growne the better fathers of 'em o'late. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , iii. 1. Equivokes be such things as have one self name, and yet be divers in substance or definition: as a natural dog and a certain star in the firmament are both called by one name in Latin, Canis, yet they be nothing like in substance, kind, or nature. Blundeville (1599). 2. An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. I loved you almost twenty years ago; I thought of you as well as I do now; better was beyond the power of conception; or, to avoid an equivoque , beyond the extent of my ideas. Bolingbroke, To Swift. 3. Equivocation. When a man can extricate himself with an equivoque in such an unequal match, he is not ill off. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 33. equivorous (ē-kwiv'ō-rus), a. [L. equus, a horse, + vorare , devour, + -ous.] Feeding or subsisting on horse-flesh; hippophagous. Smart. Equivorous Tartars. Quarterly Rev. equivocated , ppr. equivocating . [ML. æquivo- Equula (ek'wo-lä), n. [NL., equula , a little cat us , pp. of æquivocari , be called by the same name, have the same sound (> It. equivocare mare.] A genus of fishes, type of the family = IMG:content-0666.png:[blocks in formation] equivalue (ē-kwi-val'ū), v. t.; pret. and pp. equi valued, ppr. equivaluing. [L. æquus, equal, + E. value. Cf. equivale.] To put the same value upon; rate as equal. [Rare.] He has the fault of all our antiquaries, to equivalue the noble and the rabble of authorities. W. Taylor , in Robberds, I. 470. equivalve (ē'kwi-valv), a . and n. [L. æquus , equal, + valva , the leaf of a door, a folding door: see valve .] I. a. In conch . , having valves equal in size and form, as a bivalve mollusk. Also equivalvular . =Syn. See equilateral . II. n. A bivalve shell in which the valves are of equal size and form.