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The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay.…

The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.

In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.

Horsemanship.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving.

Contemporaneous. [Obs.] Boyle.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

ecures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity. Tillotson.

Not equitable; not just. Burke.

To ride over or through. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Want of equity; injustice; wrong. "Some form of inequity." H. Spencer.

Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service. Burke.

In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.

ant of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. Spenser.

Greatness of distance; remoteness. [R.] Barrow.

The pod or seed of the mesquite.