equivalate

present singular third person equivalates · participle present equivalating · participle past equivalated · past equivalated

1. transitiveTo equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with).

   Visceral values, which I equivalate with colour values, are closely related to thermal or temperature values.

   1979, Bernard Berenson, Aesthetics and history in the visual arts, page 84

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   "The Chinese are much addicted to the doctrine of signatures," writes one author, which creates relationships on visual physical grounds (such as equivalating the seed-laden pomegranate with fertility).

   2008, Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery, page 12

2. intransitiveTo equal, to be equivalent (to).

   I want, however, to stress one further fact: because syncategoremata may be construed with whole sentences, the suspicion arises that they may somehow equivalate whole sentences.

   1976, Herman Parret, History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics, page 262

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   In a riveting analysis of this very phenomenon, The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner discusses at length the notion that human relationships equivalate to a "dance" where each partner learns the steps and sticks to the script, […]

   2002, Janice M. Kozma, Grazia Deledda's eternal adolescents, page 131