E'qual-īze, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. EQUALIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. EQUALIZING.] [Fr. égaliser, O. Fr. égalizer.]
Sense 1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth.
Sense 2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal.
Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad. Orrery.
Sense 3. To be equal to; to equal. [Obs.]
It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller.