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preponderate |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Preponderate \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Preponderate \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: preponderate v : weigh more heavily [syn: {outweigh}, {overbalance}, {outbalance}]
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