adequate

adj

1. Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

   “powers adequate to a great work”

   “an adequate definition”

   “Proportion therefore your Clothes to your bodies, and let them be proper for your persons. […] Agreeableness […] ought to be exact, and adequate both to age, person and condition, avoiding extremities on both sides, being neither too much out, nor in the fashions.”

   “Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance […]”

   “1853, Thomas De Quincey, Autobiographic Sketches in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, “Dublin,” p. 254, […] in those days, Ireland had no adequate champion; the Hoods and the Grattans were not up to the mark.”

det

1. A sufficient amount of; enough.

   “We have adequate money for the journey.”

verb

1. (obsolete)To equalize; to make adequate.

   “Let me giue yet one instance more, of a truly intellectuall obiect, exactly adequated and proportioned vnto the intellectuall appetite.”

2. (obsolete)To equal.

   “[…] though it be an impossibilitie for any creature to adequate God in his eternitie, yet he hath ordained all his sonnes in Christ to partake of it by living with him eternally.”