Citations:on the level

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English citations of on the level

Older meaning

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  • 1809, Bartholomew Parr, The London medical dictionary[1], volume 1, page 484:
    Our countryman may not have borrowed the hint; but, in the present state of chemical science, it lay too much on the level for any one to plume himself greatly on the discovery.

Freemasonry use

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  • 1808, "Senior Warden's Song", Thomas Smith Webb, in The Freemason's Monitor: Or, Illustrations of Masonry in Two Parts
    When the Senior Warden, standing in the West, / Calls us from our labours to partake of rest, / We unite, whilst he recites / The duties of a mason. / On the level meet, / On the square we part, / Repeats each worthy brother.

"On the SAME level"

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  • 1825, William Latta McCalla, Discussion of universalism: or, A defence of orthodoxy against the ...[2], page xx:
    Your letter informs me moreover that we cannot again meet unless we are on the level; — unless I prove my Christianity; — unless I am virtually re-ordained; — and unless I give you the right hand of fellowship.

On equal footing

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  • 1888, William S. Speer, Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans[3], page 200:
    The rich litigant and the poor one met "on the level" in his court, and his decrees were accepted as the conclusions of a head and heart, well educated and thoroughly honest.
  • 1905 April, “Popular Mechanics”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[4], volume 7, number 4, page 470:
    This is no get-rich-quick scheme, no "Frenzied Finance." You will be met on the level and treated on the square