equallyadv.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 215 It is doubtfull whether it [sc. Saint Helena] adhere to America or Afrique, the vast Ocean bellowing, on both sides, and almost equally.

1668 T. Mall Offer of Farther Help xiii. 113 They all flow equally from the sovereignty of God.

1692 O. Walker Greek & Rom. Hist. 291 He was equally Learned as Warlike.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 26 And equally of Fear and Forecast void.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 22 It is said these Observations are equally applicable to Brutes.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xvi. 89 You and Clara shall be equally my daughters.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 146 His presence and his absence were equally dreaded by the lord lieutenant.

1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes 7 Being the inventor of the lyre, he [Hermes] is patron of poets equally as Apollo.

18.. T. Arnold Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. Introd. p. x This work is equally one-sided and uncompromising with Wyclif's tracts.

c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 529 Ther nys no man can deme..If that it were departed equally.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 24 My foreward..Consisting equallie of horse and foote. View more context for this quotation

1695 Ld. Preston Life Boethius in tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. p. xv Equally sharing with him his Labours and Victories.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 25 To her other sisters equally between them.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 181 The said legacy should be divided equally between them that were alive.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi Deale equally without parcialyte.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xxiii. sig. T4 The equally respecting eye Of powre, looking alike on like desarts.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 44 So to vse them, As we shall find their merits, and our safty May equally determine. View more context for this quotation

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xv. 77 If a man..judge between man and man, it is a precept..that he deale Equally between them.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 3 To enter equally into the genius of both nations.

1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 204 You say it is dealing equitably or equally.

1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 238 Yet are they [the bridges] equally buylt, no higher in the middle than at eyther end.

1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements i. 1 A right line is that which lyes equally betwixt it's points.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. i. 3 The nurse went equally with him that supported the train.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiv. 90 Being constantly equally swift.

1694 D. Cullum Let. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 191 Distributing the Air..more equally through the House.

1735 G. Berkeley Querist §214 Seed equally scattered produceth a goodly harvest.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §242 The wedges and trenails..were every where equally applied.

1796 Ld. Nelson 5 June in Dispatches (1846) VII. Introd. 81 I know of none so equally good.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 351 The thickest wires receive the strongest heat; therefore, the whole is equally heated in the same space of time.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xiii The population, formerly spread pretty equally over the country.