Citations:æquable

English citations of æquable

Adjective: archaic form of equable

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• 1673, George Lockhart quoted in Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs; Volume I, pages 66–67:

  Sir Androw not only, beyond all expectation, compoſed their differences, but alſo, like a common father to both, hath keipt them in ane æquable ballance and temper ever ſince.

• 1735, Thomas Morgan, The Mechanical Practice of Physick; Proposition XVI, page #283:

  HOWEVER, it muſt not be thought that this Acceleration of Growth is uniform and æquable from the Conception to the Birth.

• 1781, Hugh Smith, Formulæ Medicamentorum; fourth edition, page #10:

  The pulse, in an inflammation, is always quicker than natural, and generally full, hard and tenſe ; the pain, likewiſe, is æquable, throbbing, and unremitting : but in a ſpaſmodic affection, the pulſe is often a natural one, and the pain is mitigated at ſhort intervals, and returns more violently by fits.

• 1805, J. A. Hendy in The Medical and Physical Journal; Volume XIV, №. 82, page #393:

  He had some sleep during the night ; tongue foul, but moist ; countenance more cheerful ; breathing still difficult and stridulous  ; pain of chest less severe ; skin soft, and covered with general warm perspiration ; cough less frequent ; he has been able to lie on his side, though not with perfect ease ; body costive ; p. 80, soft and æquable.