Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Equally.

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Examples

  • Schuyler cattle might turn up on Spencer land, or Brenton cattle on Schuyler ground. egally, specific sections were owned by specific people; practically, each rancher used the entire valley.

    Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

  • Remember, even though no chemical reaction occurs you can still be egally charged with constructing a bomb.

    Terror in Argentina Rosenblum, Mort 1976

  • In euerie degree and sort of men vertue is commendable, but not egally: not onely because mens estates are vnegall, but for that also vertue it selfe is not in euery respect of egall value and estimation.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • A putative marriage is a egally invalid marriage, although entered into with good faith by one or both parites.

    California Family Law Blog 2010

  • In euerie degree and sort of men vertue is commendable, but not egally: not onely because mens estates are vnegall, but for that also vertue it selfe is not in euery respect of egall value and estimation.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • And some verses made all of bisillables and others all of trisillables, and others of polisillables egally increasing and of diuers quantities, and sundry situations, as in this of our owne, made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Of the firft of thefe I haue ahea* dyfpoken fomewhat, when I confuted their erroar, which think that the generalnesofthe promifcs extedeth egally toal man - kinde.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

  • _trissillables_, and others of _polisillables_ egally increasing and of diuers quantities, and sundry situations, as in this of our owne, made to daunt the insolence of a beautifull woman.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • _ne_, and _lo_, being sillables vocals be egally smoth and currant vpon the toung, and might beare aswel the long as the short time, but it pleased the Poet otherwise: so he that first shortned, _ca_, in this word

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • ; Article is þ {a} t nombre that may be dyvyded {e} in .10. p {ar} ties egally, And that there leve no residue; Componed {e} or medled {e} is that nombre that is come of a digite and of an article.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

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