Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Evenly poised; balanced.
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- adjective in
equilibrium ;balanced
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Examples
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But more: in the pataphysical narrative there is no concreted moment of resolution in the ending-as-return-to-beginning (because any moment may be both beginning and ending, equilibrious and resolutionary); and in accepting the duality of conflict as a form of balance, the pataphysical narrative ultimately accepts even the deeper abstract and formal symmetry of harmony and discord as yet another type of balance.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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But more: in the pataphysical narrative there is no concreted moment of resolution in the ending-as-return-to-beginning (because any moment may be both beginning and ending, equilibrious and resolutionary); and in accepting the duality of conflict as a form of balance, the pataphysical narrative ultimately accepts even the deeper abstract and formal symmetry of harmony and discord as yet another type of balance.
More on Narrative Hal Duncan 2008
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"You'll have to be of a very _equilibrious_ nature to do that," said
Cricket at the Seashore Elizabeth Weston Timlow 1896
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i must take the insights and understandings, of myself and others, to build something better. to find balance and resolve things back to an equilibrious state.
Dawn of the Dead stardustcboy 2005
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