About The Word Preponderate
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Preponderate
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What's The Definition Of Preponderate?
[v] weigh more heavily
Synonyms | Synonyms for Preponderate: outbalance | outweigh | overbalance Related Terms | Find terms related to Preponderate: See Also | dominate | predominate | prevail | reign | rule Preponderate In Webster's Dictionary \Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Preponderated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preponderating}.] [L.
praeponderatus, p. p. of praeponderare; prae before +
ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. See
{Ponder}.]
1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight;
to overbalance.
An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the
center of the balance, will preponderate greater
magnitudes. --Glanvill.
2. To overpower by stronger or moral power.
3. To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [Obs.]
The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates
him for peace. --Fuller.
\Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. i. To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated. That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate. --Bp. Wilkins. |
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