unˈequable, a.
(un-1 7 and 5 b.)
| 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 261 March and September..are..the most unsettled and unequable of seasons. 1748 Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §3. 108 Unequable and irregular Motions of the Heart and Bowels. 1763 Phil. Trans. LIII. 245 The true (or unequable) motions of the Sun, Moon, and nodes. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 45 The unequable motion of the piston moved in the common way by a crank. 1855 Faber Growth in Holiness xvii. 306 We are fluctuating and unequable in our very fears. |
Hence unˈequably adv.
| 1834 M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. iii. (1840) 20 As the planet moves unequably in its orbit. a 1849 Poe Eureka Wks. 1865 II. 180 We have now reached a point from which we behold the Universe as a spherical space, interspersed, unequably, with clusters. |