Meanings
adjectiveadæquate (comparative more adæquate, superlative most adæquate)
comparative more adæquate · superlative most adæquate
- archaicArchaic spelling of adequate.
The covenant sealed, or, A treatise of the sacraments of both covenants, polemicall and practicall: especially of the sacraments of the covenant of grace. In which, the nature of them is laid open, the adæquate subject is largely inquired into, respective to right and proper interest […]
1655, Thomas Blake, The covenant sealed, or, A treatise of the sacraments of both covenants, polemicall and practicall: especially of the sacraments of the covenant of grace. In which, the nature of them is laid open, the adæquate subject is largely inquired into, respective to right and proper interest […], main title (Abel Roper)
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