equable
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1. equable - Adjective
2. equable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.
Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
If you are not something of a philosopher,-and by philosophy I understand a serene temper, and the maintaining of an equable mind under the sharpest disappointments,-I do not advise you to cultivate, or at any rate to grow enamoured of, a garden.
Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in motion compounded from equable horizontal and from naturally accelerated downward [motions], it describes a semiparabolic line in its movement.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.