ppl. a. Obs. [ad. L. coæquāt-us, pa. pple. of coæquāre to make equal with another.] Made equal with something else. In coequate or coequated anomaly, the true or equated anomaly of a planet: see ANOMALY.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 50. The coæquated and smoothe plaine.
1624. Ussher, Sermon, 59. God is made the coæquate object of the whole body of Divinitie.
1676. Halley, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 230. If the angle of coæquate anomaly be acute.
1726. trans. Gregory’s Astron., I. 381. A S L the Coequate Anomaly. Ibid., I. 390. The coequated Anomaly.
1769. Encycl. Brit., III. 549/2. s.v. Astronomy, The planet’s distance from it [the aphelion] … is called its true or coequated anomaly.
