Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Adequate

Adequate ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin adaequatus, past participle of adaequare to make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See Equal.]

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
Ireland had no adequate champion. — De Quincey

Adequate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[See Adequate, a.]

1.
To equalize; to make adequate. [Rare] — Fotherby
2.
To equal. [Obsolete]
It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford