aequilibrium

* Aequitas, aequilibrium, aequalitas, are all of the same family.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Things are not left to an aequilibrium, to hover under an indifference whether they shall come to pass or not come to pass; but the whole train of events is laid beforehand, and all proceed by the rule and limit of an antecedent decree: for otherwise, who could manage the affairs of the world, and govern the dependance of one event upon another, if that event happened at random, and was not cast into a certain method and relation to some foregoing purpose to direct it?

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

_aequilibrium_ of Day and Night, for some time, holds the Air in a gloomy suspence between an unwillingness to leave the light, and a natural impulse into the Dominion of darkness, about this time our Hero's, shall

Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd William Congreve 1699