equivalate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from equivalent. See -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkwɪvəˌleɪt/

Verb

equivalate (third-person singular simple present equivalates, present participle equivalating, simple past and past participle equivalated)

1. (transitive) To equate, to consider or make equal or equivalent (to, with).
   • 1979, Bernard Berenson, Aesthetics and history in the visual arts, page 84:

     Visceral values, which I equivalate with colour values, are closely related to thermal or temperature values.

   • 2008, Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese art: a guide to motifs and visual imagery, page 12:

     "The Chinese are much addicted to the doctrine of signatures," writes one author, which creates relationships on visual physical grounds (such as equivalating the seed-laden pomegranate with fertility).

2. (intransitive) To equal, to be equivalent (to).
   • 1976, Herman Parret, History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics, page 262:

     I want, however, to stress one further fact: because syncategoremata may be construed with whole sentences, the suspicion arises that they may somehow equivalate whole sentences.

   • 2002, Janice M. Kozma, Grazia Deledda's eternal adolescents, page 131:

     In a riveting analysis of this very phenomenon, The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner discusses at length the notion that human relationships equivalate to a "dance" where each partner learns the steps and sticks to the script, […]