Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To counterbalance.
- v. To give equal balance or weight to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To be equal in weight; weigh as much as another thing.
- To weigh as much as in an opposite scale; counterbalance.
Wiktionary
- v. To counterbalance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing.
- v. To make equal in weight; to counterbalance.
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin aequiponderāre, aequiponderāt- : Latin aequi-, equi- + Latin ponderāre, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.””
“Momentarily left to itself amid grounded vehicles and mountains of supplies, the stunned Amplitur struggled to equiponderate its equilibrium.”
“` ` Why, you know, Tacitus saith ` _In rebus bellicis maxime dominatur Fortuna, + which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, ` Luck can maist in the mellee.”
“[11] But in this instance, perhaps, distance of space, combined with the unrivalled grandeur of the war, was felt to equiponderate the distance of time, Susa, the Persian capital, being fourteen hundred miles from Athens.”
“Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee.”
“FORTUNA, "which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage," Luck can maist in the mellee. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘equiponderate’.
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phrontistery - e
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words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
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