adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In an equable manner; uniformly, regularly; justly, fairly; calmly, tranquilly.
1726. trans. Gregorys Astron., I. III. 417. The Sun movd both equably and in the Equator.
1715. Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., I. 52 (J.). If Bodies move equably in Concentrick Circles, [etc.].
1798. Malthus, Popul. (1806), II. III. x. 238. The wealth of the civilized world will be more equably diffused.
1839. Thirlwall, Greece, III. 61. The cultivation of their fertile and equably divided territory.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xi. 172. Equably confessing her ignorance on all such points.