▪ I.adequate,a.|ˈædɪkwət|Also 7 adæquat, adæquate.[ad.L. adæquāt-us equalized,pa.pple.of adæquā-re: see next.]Const. to (withobs.).†1.Equal in magnitude or extent; commensurate; neither more nor less. Obs.1628T. SpencerLogick 108Those things are equall..which are adæquate in magnitude.1662FullerWorthies (1840) III. 140He grew so tall in stature, that a hole was made for him in the ground, to stand therein up to the knees, so to make him adequate with his fellow-workmen.1677HalePrim.Orig.Man.311No finite Being can be an adequate Image of an infinite Being or Perfection.1750JohnsonRamblerNo.150 ⁋3Acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations.2. a.Commensurate in fitness; equal or amounting to what is required; fully sufficient, suitable, or fitting.a1617P. BayneEphes.(1658) 123To justifye is not the sole adæquate or full act of it.c1685in SomersTracts II. 444They were at a stand for want of Words adequate to it.1738WarburtonDiv.Legat. II. 148Wit consists in using strong metaphoric Images in uncommon and adequate Allusions.1771JuniusLett.lvii. 294People..have no adequate idea of the endless variety of your character.1817Jas.Mill Brit.India II. v. iii. 389A remedy which was far from adequate to the disease.1860W. CollinsWom. in White ii. 275Is language adequate to describe it?a1870Miss Mitford in L'EstrangeLife I. iv. 100Mr. Herbert does me a very great honour in thinking me adequate to the Copenhagen subject.b.Withoutconst.: equal to the occasion, competent to deal with the situation.1924A. D. SedgwickLittle French Girl ii. ix,Alix, in Maman's place, poured out their coffee, heavy-eyed, but still adequate.c.In slightly derogatory sense: hardly sufficient or acceptable; barely reaching a minimum standard.1900Beerbohm inSat.Rev.24 Feb. 234/1It[the production of a play]was simply what the dramatic critics call ‘adequate’, meaning ‘inadequate’.1958Times 12 Feb. 3/1The standard rapidly sinks to a level which is, at best, adequate but at worst incompetent.3.Logic. Fully answering to, or representing.1690LockeHum. Underst. ii. xxxi. (1695) 207Those[Ideas]I call Adequate, which perfectly represent those Archetypes, which the Mind supposes them taken from; which it intends them to stand for.1724WattsLogic i. vi. §5 (1822) 116A definition must be universal, or as some call it, adequate; that is, it must agree to all the particular species or individuals that are included under the same idea.1846MillLogic i. viii. §3 (1868) 152The only adequate definition of a name is..one which declares the facts.▪ II.†ˈadequate,v.Obs.Also 7 adæquate.[f.L. adæquāt-ppl.stem of adæquā-re to make or become level or equal;f.ad to + æquāre,f.æqu-us level, equal.]1.To equalize; to make equal or sufficient.1622M. FotherbyAtheomastix II. ii. §7. 208A truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.1671True Non-Conformist 16Adequating the guilt and punishment.1691E. TaylorBehmen's Theos.Phil.68What adequated and priviledged him.2.To equal, to be equal to, or sufficient for.1599NasheLenten Stuffe (1871) 29Her sumptuous porches, and garnished buildings, are such, as no port-town in our British circumference..may suitably stake with, or adequate.1635ShelfordDisc.227Though it be an imposibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie.1699Phil.Trans.XXI. 291The Husk being..divided into Five Points, Adequating the Segments of each Flower.