co-ordinate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CO-ORDINATE, adjective [Latin , to regulate. See Order.] Being of equal order, or of the same rank or degree; not subordinate; as, two courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction.
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