equipollent

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The ladder of Masonry, like the equipollent ladders of its kindred institutions, always had seven steps, although in modern times the three principal or upper ones are alone alluded to.

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  1. adjective Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.
  2. adjective Logic Validly derived from each other; deducible.
  3. adjective Equivalent.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin aequipollēns, aequipollent- : aequi-, equi- + pollēns, present participle of pollēre, to be powerful.

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  1. Middle English equipolent, from Old French equipolent, French équipollent = Spanish equipolente = Portuguese Italian equipollente, from Late Latin æquipollen(t-)s (Middle Latin erroneously æquipolen(t-)s), having equal power, equivalent, from Latin æquus, equal, + pollen(t-)s, present participle of pollere, be strong.
 

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/ikwɪˈpɑlənt/
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