equinecessary

Adjective

equinecessary (not comparable)

1. (rare) Necessary or needful in the same degree.
   • The ancients make two sev'ral kinds
     Of prowess in heroic minds
     The active, and the passive valiant
     Both which are pari libra gallant;
     For both to give blows, and to carry,
     In fights are equinecessary1662, Samuel Butler, Hudbiras, published 1668
   • Cadmus dryly replied —"On that point also we can have no divarication, sir; I too would use my utmost powers of refrenation with my ward until such elucidation was made where I might see it to be equinecessary; I mean naething discourteous, my dear sir; I cherish the highest respect for you and...1816, Jane Harvey, Brougham Castle: A Novel, p. 29 http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC57223097&id=C6kBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA4-PA29&lpg=RA4-PA29&dq=equinecessary#PRA4-PA29,M1