Obs. [f. the adj.]

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  1.  trans. To be or become coequal with (another).

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 56. They cannot march cheek by jowl with her, or coequal her.

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1604–14.  S. Grahame, in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 26. That ill Coequals still The greatest ill in hell.

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  2.  To make equal with (another).

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1588.  J. Harvey, Disc. Probl., 8. Rabbi Elias … lately coequalled in a maner with the very prophet Eliah himselfe.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. lii. (1612), 235. Gods Cou’nant with the Patriarchs and extending to their Seede, Vs Gentiles to coequall, is a Primate of our Creede.

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