Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.
To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] Fotherby.
To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.
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