adv. [f. ADEQUATE a. + -LY2.] In an adequate manner.
† 1. With complete equality, with perfect correspondence; exactly. Obs.
1656. trans. Hobbes’ Elem. Philos. (1839), 76. Place is that space which is possessed or filled adequately by some body.
1689. H. More, Answ. Psychop., 121. You confound Substance and Matter, as if they adequately signified the same.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., vii. 222. Adapting itself to the figure of every Pore, may adequately fill them.
2. In a manner fitted to satisfy the requirements of the case; sufficiently, suitably.
1690. B[oyle], Chr. Virtuoso, I. 71. Many of which [points of Supernatural Experience] are not to be Adequately estimated by the same Rules.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., 186. A man of sense can be adequately esteemed by none other than a man of sense.
1821–30. Ld. Cockburn, Mem. his Time, 254. The grounds of divorce were, that I had never been adequately of his party.
1877. Mrs. Brassey, Voy. Sunbeam, xv. (1878), 268. No words could adequately describe such a scene.
3. Logic. With perfect correspondence of idea to object.
1628. T. Spencer, Logick, 191. Life and Rationalitie are attributed vnto man … adæquatly: so as, all that is in Life, and Rationalitie, is sayd to belong to man: and all that is in man, is denoted, and set out by life, and rationalitie.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., iii. § 3 (1738), 42. Those ideas or objects, that are immediate, will be adequately and truly known to that mind, whose ideas they are.
