equableness

[Eng. equable; -ne .] The quality or state of being equable; equability. e-qua-bly, adv. [Eng. equab (le); -ly.] In an equable manner; with uniformity of motion. "If bodies move equably in concentric circles, and the squares of their periodical times be as the cubes of their distances from the common non center, their centripetal forces will be reciprocally as the squares of the dis tances."-Cheyne. e-qual, *e-gal, *e-galle, *e-quall, a . , adv. & s. [Lat. æqualis , from æquus equal, just; Fr. égal ; Sp. & Port. igual ; Ital. eguale .] IMG:content-1087.png:[blocks in formation] equal 7. In just proportion or relation. "It is not permitted me to make my commend at i one equal to your merit." -Dryden: Fables. (Dedic.) 8. Adequate to any purpose. "The Scots trusted not their own numbers, as equal to fight with the English."-Clarendon. 9. Even, uniform, equable. "An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned." Dryden: Juvenal , sat. x. 10. On the same terms; enjoying equal rights or benefits. "They made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves." -2 Maccabees, IMG:content-1088.png:[blocks in formation] "I profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation."- Galatians, i. 14. *4. A state of equality. ( Spenser .) with another board; the floor the Crabb thus discriminates between equal , even , equable , like or alike , and uniform : "All these epithets are opposed to difference. Equal is said of degree, quantity, number, and dimensions, as equal in years; of an equal age; an equal height: even is said of the surface and position of di a board ground is even : like is said of accidental qualities things, as alike in color or in feature: uniform is said of things only as to their fitne to correspond; those which are unlike in color, shape, or make, or not uniform , cannot be made to match as pairs: equable is used only in the moral acceptation, in which all the others are likewise employed. As moral qualities admit of degree, they admit of equality : justice is dealt out in equal portions to the rich and the poor; God looks with an equal eye on all mankind. As the natural path is rendered uneven by high and low ground, so the evenne of the temper, in the figurative sense, is destroyed by changes of humor, by elevations and depre ions of the spirits; and the equability of the mind is hurt by the vici itudes of life, from prosperous to adverse: even and equable are applied to the same mind in relation to itself: like or alike is used to the minds of two or more uniform is applied to the temper, habits, character, or conduct." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) Equal voices in music: A term for an a ortment of men's voices or women's voices. Thus, a piece is said to be set for equal voices when the voices of men only are needed, though the quality of those voices is not equal, the alto voice differing from the tenor, as the tenor does from the ba . The like difference in a le marked manner also exists among women's voices, but when all men's or all women's voices are required, the term equal is applied to each group. The union of the voices of the two sexes is styled mixed. In its most true sense the term should only be applied to groups of voices of like register and compa (Stainer & Barrett .)