adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an equatorial direction or position.

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1802.  Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. It is occasionally requisite, that the object-end of the instrument be moved up and down, as well as horizontally or equatorially.

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1868.  Lockyer, Elem. Astron., 224. An eight-inch telescope, equatorially mounted.

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1870.  R. M. Ferguson, Electr., 41. Some arranged themselves axially, others equatorially.

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1875.  Croll, Climate & T., vi. 113. The cool and heavy water of the polar basin … would flow equatorially with equal velocity.

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1889.  Burdon-Sanderson, in Nature, 26 Sept., 529. Suppose that … the catalyzable material … is accumulated equatorially.

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