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adequates

adequates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adequate.

Meaning of adequate

Verb

adequate (third-person singular simple present adequates, present participle adequating, simple past and past participle adequated)

  1. (obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
    • Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels, London, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 208
  2. (obsolete) To equal.
    • […] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.1635, Robert Shelford, “Theologia Amantis Deum, or A Treatise of the Divine Attributes”, in Five Pious and Learned Discourses, Cambridge, page 227

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Questions about adequates

What is adequates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adequates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adequate.

Words near adequates in the dictionary

  1. adequated
  2. adequately
  3. adequately wet
  4. adequateness
  5. adequatenesses
  6. adequates
  7. adequating
  8. adequation
  9. adequationism
  10. adequations
  11. adequative

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