a. Also 7 æquanimous. [f. L. æquanim-is (see prec.) + -OUS.]
1. Even-tempered; not easily elated or depressed.
1656. Trapp, Comm. Matt. v. 16. 69. [A minister must be] patient, or æquanimous, easily parting with his right for peace sake.
1660. Gauden, Sacrilegus, 14. That the Reverend Bishops … may not seem less equanimous and condescending.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Aug., 3/2. It required all the splendour of the day … to make me equanimous on discovering the postmaster’s audacious cheat.
† 2. Impartial. Obs.
1670. Maynwaring, Vita Sana, xv. 128–9. That æquanimous distribution of her [the Soul’s] energy into the Members and Parts of the Body.
Hence Equanimously adv., with equanimity. Equanimousness, the quality of being equanimous.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 132. Or have their prefiguring, and impending portents a speciall work in disposing equanimously to all accidents?
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, III. iii. 41. Pendennis, in reality, suffered it very equanimously.
1736. Bailey, Equanimousness, evenness of mind, contentedness.
1775. in Ash.
