adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an equable manner; uniformly, regularly; justly, fairly; calmly, tranquilly.

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1726.  trans. Gregory’s Astron., I. III. 417. The Sun … mov’d both equably and in the Equator.

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1715.  Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., I. 52 (J.). If Bodies move equably in Concentrick Circles, [etc.].

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1798.  Malthus, Popul. (1806), II. III. x. 238. The wealth of the civilized world will … be … more equably diffused.

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1839.  Thirlwall, Greece, III. 61. The … cultivation of their fertile and equably divided territory.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, xi. 172. Equably confessing her ignorance on all such points.

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