Definition of "equall"

The articles whereof were theſe: That ſuch as were in debt, ſhould be cleered of all their debts, and that the landes alſo ſhould be diuided into equall partes: so that from the valley of Pallena vnto mount Taugetus, and vnto the cities of Malea, and Selasia, there ſhould be foure thowſand fiue hundred partes, […]

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, page 851

For as in the heavens the diſtance of the North and Southern pole, which are eſteemed the ſuperiour and inferiour points, is equall unto the ſpace between the Eaſt and Weſt

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]