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adequately, adv.|ˈædɪkwətlɪ|
[f. adequate a. + -ly2.]
In an adequate manner.
†1. With complete equality, with perfect correspondence; exactly. Obs.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 76 Place is that space which is possessed or filled adequately by some body. 1689H. More Answ. Psychop. 121 You confound Substance and Matter, as if they adequately signified the same. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 222 Adapting itself to the figure of every Pore, may adequately fill them.
2. In a manner fitted to satisfy the requirements of the case; sufficiently, suitably.
1690B[oyle] Chr. Virtuoso i. 71 Many of which [points of Supernatural Experience] are not to be Adequately estimated by the same Rules. a1763Shenstone Ess. 186 A man of sense can be adequately esteemed by none other than a man of sense. 1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. his Time 254 The grounds of divorce were, that I had never been adequately of his party. 1877A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam xv. (1878) 268 No words could adequately describe such a scene.
3. Logic. With perfect correspondence of idea to object.
1628T. Spencer Logick 191 Life and Rationalitie are attributed vnto man..adæquatly: so as, all that is in Life, and Rationalitie, is sayd to belong to man: and all that is in man, is denoted, and set out by life, and rationalitie. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. iii. §3 (1738) 42 Those ideas or objects, that are immediate, will be adequately and truly known to that mind, whose ideas they are. |