Adjective: egal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more egal |
| Superlative | most egal |
Sample Sentences
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Whose souls do bear an egal yoke of love, [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
Adjectives inflected like egal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English egal, from Old French egal, igal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of equal and aequalis. See: Latin Adjectives '
aequālis'.