Citations:æquanimous

Adjective: archaic form of

 * 1668, David Lloyd, Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings & Deaths of those Personages, that Suffered by Death, Sequestration, Decimation; page #524:
 * He was ſo good Compamy, that happy the perſon that could enjoy him ; either Citizens,Gentlemand,or( b)Nobmelmen : he removing up and down out of an æquanimous civility to his many worthy friends, that he might ſo diſpenſe his much deſired company among them, that no one might monopolize him to the envy of others : ſo general a Scholar that it was his inſight into everything he had read, that (together with his thinking and meditating nature,out of which he could not be got ſometimes for ſeveral hours together ) made his fanſie ſo nimble, that as ſoon as he heard any ſubject, he was able to ſpeak to it, taking not above two hours time to recollect himſelf for his Sermons.
 * 1887, Oswald John F. Crawfurd, Beyond the Seas, Chapman and Hall; Chapter XVI, pages 215–216:
 * So likewise did he find in their notions of obedience to Duty as being obedience to God, the highest concept of human righteousness, and in their doctrine of the necessity of a possession by man of an æquanimous soul in trouble, and his power of rising by his will superior to Fate, the highest fortitude.  He held to all this as high and comfortable doctrine, tending, if practised, to the highest life.
 * 1898, Meric Casavbon, The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius, M. Flesher; second edition, Book VIII, page #131:
 * And then, with that very thing that doth hinder, thou mayest be well pleased, and so by this gentle and æquanimous conversion of thy minde unto that which may be, in stead of that which at first thou didst intend, in the roome of that former action there succeedeth another, which agrees as well with this contraction of thy life, that we now speake of.