adequateadj.

Brit.

/ˈadᵻkwət/, U.S.

/ˈædəkwət/

Forms: 1600s adaequat, 1600s–1700s adaequate, 1600s– adequate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adaequātus, adaequāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin adaequātus, past participle of adaequāre adequate v. Compare earlier adequate v. and note at that entry on isolated earlier use of adequate as a past participle in Middle English.

†1. Equal in size or extent; exactly equivalent in form. Frequently with to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > commensurate or of equal extent

adequate1608

coextending1617

commensurate1641

coextent1647

coextended1656

coextensive1771

pro tanto1842

coequal1853

1608 T. Bell Iesuits Antepast ii. 52 Two adequate bodies may be in one place at once, and yet neither the place be deuided into two places, nor yet the bodies transformed or confounded into one body.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick xxii. 108 Those things are equall..which are adæquate in magnitude.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 48 He grew so tall in stature, that a hole was made for him in the Ground to stand therein up to the knees, so to make him adequate with his Fellow-work-men.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 311 It was not any Image adequate to the Divine Perfection and Excellence, as the Impression in the Wax is the adequate Image or Representation of the Seal, and as large as it.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 150. ⁋3 Acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations.

?1769 C. H. Wilmot tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. ii. v. 120 They..thought him possessed of prudentiality adequate to his valour.

2. Philosophy and Logic. Of an idea, concept, etc.: fully and exactly representing its object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to other types of terms

concrete?1499

adequate1615

reflexive1903

aliorelative1915

1615 E. Evans Verba Dierum 72 This therefore is no Adequate Subiect; with which neither All things, nor All Reports can match in Exequation, much lesse can make any true Exaggeration thereof, but only by a true Antiphrasis.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 47 End is adequate which is euened or reciprocated with the whole thing.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxx. 171 Those [Ideas] I call Adequate, which perfectly represent those Archetypes, which the Mind supposes them taken from; which it intends them to stand for.

1705 S. Clarke Demonstr. Being & Attributes God vi. 91 As impossible..as it is for us to form an adæquate idea of Infinity.

1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. 164 A Definition must be universal, or as some call it, adequate; that is, it must agree to all the particular Species or Individuals that are included under the same Idea.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. viii. §4 152 The only adequate definition of a name is..one which declares the facts.

1896 Philos. Rev. 5 483 Here we start from an adequate idea of the formal essence of any of the divine attributes.

1948 Analysis 8 95 A general proof that (E) is an adequate definition of truth would be faced with serious difficulties.

1988 R. Hurley tr. G. Deleuze Spinoza iii. 36 Whenever an idea is adequate, it precisely captures at least two bodies, mine and another.

2007 S. Candlish & N. Damnjanovic in D. Jacquette Philos. of Logic 259 Convention T asserts that any adequate definition of a truth-predicate, ‘T’, must entail all instances of the so-called T-schema.

a. Fully satisfying what is required; quite sufficient, suitable, or acceptable in quality or quantity. Frequently with to.In quot. 1924: equal to the occasion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > sufficient in degree or quality

competent1597

good-enough1600

adequatea1617

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > adequate for the case or conditions

fulfilling1340

satisfactory1576

proportionate1614

adequatea1617

satisfactive1646

equal1697

a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 123 To justifye is not the sole adæquate or full act of it.

1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 220 Gold, siluer, riches, honours, crownes, kingdomes, are no fit matter or adequate obiect, for such an immateriall and heauenly borne spirit, to repose and feed vpon, with finall rest and full contentment.

1690 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 444 They were at a stand for want of Words adequate to it.

1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. 148 Wit consists in using strong metaphoric Images in uncommon and adequate Allusions.

1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) x. 239 The £600 a-year..I do not look upon as anything like adequate.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iii. 389 A remedy which was far from adequate to the disease.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White ii. 275 Is language adequate to describe it?

1890 Athenæum 22 Feb. 239/1 The art and science of what may be called acrobatics have never yet received really adequate treatment.

1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. ix. 165 Alix, in Maman's place, poured out their coffee, heavy-eyed, but still adequate.

1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) xi. 203 Government hospitals were supposed to have adequate stores of antivenin.

2010 Australian (Nexis) 1 Mar. (Features section) 14 A recognition that somehow his routine vocabulary was no longer adequate to the occasion.

b. Satisfactory, but worthy of no stronger praise or recommendation; barely reaching an acceptable standard; just good enough.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > competent

goodc1275

sufficientc1385

suffisantc1385

capable1609

adequate1867

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > barely sufficient

adequate1867

1867 Jrnl. Assembly State N.-Y. (90th Sess.) 1 23 The prospective asylum at Ovid, and the one contemplated on the Hudson river, promise no more than adequate facilities for the treatment of the insane.

1900 M. Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 24 Feb. 234/1 It [sc. the production of a play] was simply what the dramatic critics call ‘adequate’, meaning ‘inadequate’.

1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xii. 54 In any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good: you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist.

1958 Times 12 Feb. 3/1 The standard rapidly sinks to a level which is, at best, adequate but at worst incompetent.

2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 June 36 The writing is half-hearted and the performances adequate at best.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

adequatev.

Brit.

/ˈadᵻkweɪt/, U.S.

/ˈædəˌkweɪt/

Forms: 1500s– adequate, 1600s adaequate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adaequāt-, adaequāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin adaequāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of adaequāre to make equal, to make level, to be equal < ad- ad- prefix + aequāre equate v. Compare slightly earlier adequation n.Compare earlier participial use derived directly from the Latin past participle:c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 1144 He wyll ay meue wythout rest or constaunce, Whyle that hys party superficiall Be adequate by ryght and lyke distaunce Oute from the erthe, ryght from the myd of all..Of water thus to speke in generall.

Now somewhat rare.

1. transitive. To make equal or commensurate with; to bring into correspondence or balance; to make adequate or sufficient.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)]

evenOE

peerc1480

parifyc1487

fellow?a1513

equate1530

coequal1588

adequate1593

equal1594

parallela1616

parallelize1620

equalize1622

coequalize1634

appariate1652

coextend1656

equalify1679

square1815

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 20 Theyr Firmament-propping foundation, shal be adequated with the Valley of Iehosaphat.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ii. §7. 208 A truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 16 Adequating the guilt and punishment.

1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 68 What adequated and priviledged him.

1732 G. Smith Institutiones Chirurgicæ i. iii. 37 The medicaments are to be adequated to the different Symptoms of the Affects and Variety of the Causes.

1797 G. Brown Philos. no Friend to Atheism iv. 33 There is a more accurate adjustment in the distances of the celestial bodies, being adequated to their quantities of matter, than we can possibly discover.

1838 Trans. Agric. & Hort. Soc. India 2 273 A sum adequated to such an object may be supplied from the quarterly subscriptions of the Members of the Society.

1839 Pensacola (Florida) Gaz. 27 Apr. I wish I was only adequated for the office.—I wish I was a Loafer.

1852 Q. Rev. Sept. 554 The compensation, if adequated and distributed amongst the agriculturists alone, would only be protection in a more invidious shape.

a1941 J. Joyce Poems & Shorter Writings (1991) 99 Let them continue as is meet To adequate the balance-sheet.

1993 E. K. Sedgwick Tendencies 72 The potency of any signifier is proven and increased..by how visibly and spectacularly it fails to be adequated by the various signifieds over which it is nonetheless seen to hold sway.

2. transitive. To equal, to be equal to. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equal to or match

to be even witheOE

match?1529

countervail1530

even1582

suit1583

patterna1586

amate1590

proportionate1590

parallela1594

fellow1596

to hold its level with1598

adequate1599

coequal1599

twin1605

paragonize1606

peer1614

to come upa1616

proportiona1616

paragon1620

parallelize1620

tail1639

to match up to (also with)1958

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 Her sumptuous porches and garnisht buildings are such, as no port Towne in our Brittish circumference..may suitably stake with, or adequate.

1635 R. Shelford Five Pious Disc. 227 Though it be an imposibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie.

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 291 The Husk being..divided into Five Points, Adequating the Segments of each Flower.

1750 Q. Mackenzie-Quin Method to multiply or divide Figures 9 Figures whose Addition and Substraction, because that their Amount adequates that of their Multiplication and Division [etc.].

1863 Reliquary Apr. 246 This most astonishing performance, which is not to be adequated in the annals of the most ancient history.

1922 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 345 The reality aimed at remains indefinitely greater than the sum-total of all human attempts to adequate or exhaust it.

a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) viii. 92 These were food, to my palate, not to be adequated in Scotland.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adequate
释义	adequateadj. Brit. /ˈadᵻkwət/, U.S. /ˈædəkwət/ Forms: 1600s adaequat, 1600s–1700s adaequate, 1600s– adequate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adaequātus, adaequāre. Etymology: < classical Latin adaequātus, past participle of adaequāre adequate v. Compare earlier adequate v. and note at that entry on isolated earlier use of adequate as a past participle in Middle English. †1. Equal in size or extent; exactly equivalent in form. Frequently with to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > commensurate or of equal extent adequate1608 coextending1617 commensurate1641 coextent1647 coextended1656 coextensive1771 pro tanto1842 coequal1853 1608 T. Bell Iesuits Antepast ii. 52 Two adequate bodies may be in one place at once, and yet neither the place be deuided into two places, nor yet the bodies transformed or confounded into one body. 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick xxii. 108 Those things are equall..which are adæquate in magnitude. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 48 He grew so tall in stature, that a hole was made for him in the Ground to stand therein up to the knees, so to make him adequate with his Fellow-work-men. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 311 It was not any Image adequate to the Divine Perfection and Excellence, as the Impression in the Wax is the adequate Image or Representation of the Seal, and as large as it. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 150. ⁋3 Acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations. ?1769 C. H. Wilmot tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. ii. v. 120 They..thought him possessed of prudentiality adequate to his valour. 2. Philosophy and Logic. Of an idea, concept, etc.: fully and exactly representing its object. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to other types of terms concrete?1499 adequate1615 reflexive1903 aliorelative1915 1615 E. Evans Verba Dierum 72 This therefore is no Adequate Subiect; with which neither All things, nor All Reports can match in Exequation, much lesse can make any true Exaggeration thereof, but only by a true Antiphrasis. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 47 End is adequate which is euened or reciprocated with the whole thing. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxx. 171 Those [Ideas] I call Adequate, which perfectly represent those Archetypes, which the Mind supposes them taken from; which it intends them to stand for. 1705 S. Clarke Demonstr. Being & Attributes God vi. 91 As impossible..as it is for us to form an adæquate idea of Infinity. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. 164 A Definition must be universal, or as some call it, adequate; that is, it must agree to all the particular Species or Individuals that are included under the same Idea. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. viii. §4 152 The only adequate definition of a name is..one which declares the facts. 1896 Philos. Rev. 5 483 Here we start from an adequate idea of the formal essence of any of the divine attributes. 1948 Analysis 8 95 A general proof that (E) is an adequate definition of truth would be faced with serious difficulties. 1988 R. Hurley tr. G. Deleuze Spinoza iii. 36 Whenever an idea is adequate, it precisely captures at least two bodies, mine and another. 2007 S. Candlish & N. Damnjanovic in D. Jacquette Philos. of Logic 259 Convention T asserts that any adequate definition of a truth-predicate, ‘T’, must entail all instances of the so-called T-schema. 3. a. Fully satisfying what is required; quite sufficient, suitable, or acceptable in quality or quantity. Frequently with to.In quot. 1924: equal to the occasion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > sufficient in degree or quality competent1597 good-enough1600 adequatea1617 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > adequate for the case or conditions fulfilling1340 satisfactory1576 proportionate1614 adequatea1617 satisfactive1646 equal1697 a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 123 To justifye is not the sole adæquate or full act of it. 1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 220 Gold, siluer, riches, honours, crownes, kingdomes, are no fit matter or adequate obiect, for such an immateriall and heauenly borne spirit, to repose and feed vpon, with finall rest and full contentment. 1690 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 444 They were at a stand for want of Words adequate to it. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. 148 Wit consists in using strong metaphoric Images in uncommon and adequate Allusions. 1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) x. 239 The £600 a-year..I do not look upon as anything like adequate. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iii. 389 A remedy which was far from adequate to the disease. 1860 W. Collins Woman in White ii. 275 Is language adequate to describe it? 1890 Athenæum 22 Feb. 239/1 The art and science of what may be called acrobatics have never yet received really adequate treatment. 1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. ix. 165 Alix, in Maman's place, poured out their coffee, heavy-eyed, but still adequate. 1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) xi. 203 Government hospitals were supposed to have adequate stores of antivenin. 2010 Australian (Nexis) 1 Mar. (Features section) 14 A recognition that somehow his routine vocabulary was no longer adequate to the occasion. b. Satisfactory, but worthy of no stronger praise or recommendation; barely reaching an acceptable standard; just good enough. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > competent goodc1275 sufficientc1385 suffisantc1385 capable1609 adequate1867 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > barely sufficient adequate1867 1867 Jrnl. Assembly State N.-Y. (90th Sess.) 1 23 The prospective asylum at Ovid, and the one contemplated on the Hudson river, promise no more than adequate facilities for the treatment of the insane. 1900 M. Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 24 Feb. 234/1 It [sc. the production of a play] was simply what the dramatic critics call ‘adequate’, meaning ‘inadequate’. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xii. 54 In any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good: you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist. 1958 Times 12 Feb. 3/1 The standard rapidly sinks to a level which is, at best, adequate but at worst incompetent. 2007 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 June 36 The writing is half-hearted and the performances adequate at best. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). adequatev. Brit. /ˈadᵻkweɪt/, U.S. /ˈædəˌkweɪt/ Forms: 1500s– adequate, 1600s adaequate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adaequāt-, adaequāre. Etymology: < classical Latin adaequāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of adaequāre to make equal, to make level, to be equal < ad- ad- prefix + aequāre equate v. Compare slightly earlier adequation n.Compare earlier participial use derived directly from the Latin past participle:c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 1144 He wyll ay meue wythout rest or constaunce, Whyle that hys party superficiall Be adequate by ryght and lyke distaunce Oute from the erthe, ryght from the myd of all..Of water thus to speke in generall. Now somewhat rare. 1. transitive. To make equal or commensurate with; to bring into correspondence or balance; to make adequate or sufficient. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] evenOE peerc1480 parifyc1487 fellow?a1513 equate1530 coequal1588 adequate1593 equal1594 parallela1616 parallelize1620 equalize1622 coequalize1634 appariate1652 coextend1656 equalify1679 square1815 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 20 Theyr Firmament-propping foundation, shal be adequated with the Valley of Iehosaphat. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ii. §7. 208 A truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 16 Adequating the guilt and punishment. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 68 What adequated and priviledged him. 1732 G. Smith Institutiones Chirurgicæ i. iii. 37 The medicaments are to be adequated to the different Symptoms of the Affects and Variety of the Causes. 1797 G. Brown Philos. no Friend to Atheism iv. 33 There is a more accurate adjustment in the distances of the celestial bodies, being adequated to their quantities of matter, than we can possibly discover. 1838 Trans. Agric. & Hort. Soc. India 2 273 A sum adequated to such an object may be supplied from the quarterly subscriptions of the Members of the Society. 1839 Pensacola (Florida) Gaz. 27 Apr. I wish I was only adequated for the office.—I wish I was a Loafer. 1852 Q. Rev. Sept. 554 The compensation, if adequated and distributed amongst the agriculturists alone, would only be protection in a more invidious shape. a1941 J. Joyce Poems & Shorter Writings (1991) 99 Let them continue as is meet To adequate the balance-sheet. 1993 E. K. Sedgwick Tendencies 72 The potency of any signifier is proven and increased..by how visibly and spectacularly it fails to be adequated by the various signifieds over which it is nonetheless seen to hold sway. 2. transitive. To equal, to be equal to. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equal to or match to be even witheOE match?1529 countervail1530 even1582 suit1583 patterna1586 amate1590 proportionate1590 parallela1594 fellow1596 to hold its level with1598 adequate1599 coequal1599 twin1605 paragonize1606 peer1614 to come upa1616 proportiona1616 paragon1620 parallelize1620 tail1639 to match up to (also with)1958 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 Her sumptuous porches and garnisht buildings are such, as no port Towne in our Brittish circumference..may suitably stake with, or adequate. 1635 R. Shelford Five Pious Disc. 227 Though it be an imposibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie. 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 291 The Husk being..divided into Five Points, Adequating the Segments of each Flower. 1750 Q. Mackenzie-Quin Method to multiply or divide Figures 9 Figures whose Addition and Substraction, because that their Amount adequates that of their Multiplication and Division [etc.]. 1863 Reliquary Apr. 246 This most astonishing performance, which is not to be adequated in the annals of the most ancient history. 1922 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 345 The reality aimed at remains indefinitely greater than the sum-total of all human attempts to adequate or exhaust it. a1946 C. Carswell Lying Awake (1950) viii. 92 These were food, to my palate, not to be adequated in Scotland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1608v.1593
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