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equip, v.|ɪˈkwɪp|
Also 6 eskippe, esquippe, 7 equippe, (8 acquip), 8 aphet. 'quip.
[a. Fr. équipe-r, esquipe-r (whence Sp., Pg. esquipar), prob. ad. ON. skipa to man (a vessel), fit up, arrange, prob. f. skip = ship.
The Fr. word in the sense ‘to equip’ is app. not recorded before 16th c.; but it must have existed much earlier, at least in AFr. and Norman Fr.; cf. AF. eskipeson equipment (14th c.) and med.L. eschipāre to man a vessel (M. Paris 13th c.). The OF. esquiper, eschiper ‘to put or go on board a ship’, ‘to put out to sea’, is perh. a different word, but must ultimately be f. ON. or OS. skip ship.]
1. trans. To fit out (a ship).
1580Baret Alv. E 340 Esquippe, or furnishe ships with all ablements. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 36 Ile ye man, esquipping youre ships with furniture aptlye. 1698–9Ludlow Mem. I. 335 (R.) The States General gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. x. 246 Equipping the ship for these two different voyages. 1837Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxi. 184 Antiphon..had equipt two galleys at his own expense.
2. In wider sense: ‘To furnish for service’ (T.); to provide with what is requisite for efficient action, as arms, instruments, or apparatus of any kind. Hence fig. to furnish with the physical or mental qualifications necessary for any task. Const. with. Also of things: to constitute the equipment of.
1523Wolsey in Fiddes Wolsey II. 107, 50,000 soldiers largelie and plentifullye furnished eskipped and trymed. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. (1634) 205 A principall Courtier writing from London, to a personage of Authority..willed him among other things to ‘equippe’ his Horses. 1727Philip Quarll 183 The Pens, Ink, and Parchment have acquip'd me to keep a Journal. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews iii. viii, Can..any drugs equip disease with the vigour of that young man? 1793Smeaton Edystone L. Pref. 6 Being so slenderly equipped as a writer. 1839H. Rogers Ess. I. iii. 107 How various..are the powers which must equip the truly great orator. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 60 Every man was ready equipped at all times with the arms which corresponded to his rank. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 151 Biörkö, one of the island cities, could equip an army of fourteen thousand burghers. 1879M. Arnold Democracy Mixed Ess. 3 My aim is..not to set on foot and fully equip a new theory. 1881Chicago Times 16 Apr., These lines [of railway] are all equipped in the best possible manner. 1885Manch. Exam. 16 Mar. 5/2 A power of analysis equal to that which would equip a mathematician.
b. To supply with the pecuniary resources needful for any undertaking. Formerly also in slang or jocular use, to present with a sum of money.
c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, The Cull equipt me with a brace of Meggs. 1762Goldsm. Nash 18 His companions agreed to equip him with fifty guineas. 1829Lytton Disowned 69 We must equip you by a mortgage on Scarsdale.
3. a. To array, dress up, rig out. Also with the thing worn as subj.b. With some notion of 2 (chiefly refl.): To dress, accoutre, fit out (for a journey).
a.1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. ix. 304 A Cap of Crimson did his Head equip. 1711Addison Spect. No. 129 ⁋2 Equipped in a ridiculous Habit, when they fancy themselves in the Height of the Mode. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 49, I had better get myself at once 'quipt in the Dress that will become my Condition. 1815Scott Guy M. iv, Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish common people with something of an Eastern costume. 1836W. Irving Astoria III. 239 Chinook warriors, all painted and equipped in warlike style.
fig.1725Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 210 Buchanan equipt them [epistles] with a French dress.
b.1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 72 It is Dr. Donne, equipped for the expedition to Cales. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 4 He equipped himself for the journey. 1879Jenkinson Guide to Lakes 236 The tourist will do well to equip himself with good strong boots. |