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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Librate \Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Librated} (l[imac]"br[asl]*t[e^]d); p. pr & vb n.
{Librating}.] [L. libratus p. p. of librare to balance, to
make even fr libra. Cf {Level}, {Deliberate},
{Equilibrium}.]
To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium;
hence to be poised.
Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. --Clifton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Librate \Li"brate\, v. t.
To poise; to balance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
librate
v : vibrate, as of a swing before it comes to a total rest
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