equipose

I'm not convinced it's entirely successful, but it might have a lot to say to those of us who've been kicking round the notion of "equipose" lately.

grahamsleight's Journal oracne 2005

To anyone for whom it does not strike an important equipose, it seems absurd.

Quote of the Day (Marilynne Robinson) James F. McGrath 2010

About mini-mag drives and Alfden's slinky, "points of equipose" and all that stuff.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

And instantaneous travel between points of equipose was known as a "God cheat."

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Vacillation prevented criticism, and we had to try the experiment again and again before we could arrive at the necessary equipose to indicate the right direction of taste and opinion.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

Very well; by holding in mind and visualizing our ideal self for the future -- having equipose under all circumstances, being soft-spoken, kindly, and affection - ate, etc. -- we shall build these ideals into the thought form we have already shaped for ourselves in that distant day.

Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910

The eyes of mankind have, as we said, been dimmed and shadowed, and at the same time the faculties have been overheated and the equipose of perception and memory seriously disturbed by this unnatural process of learning.

Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Various 1870

All the other items in the catalogue were as easily disposed of; and so the literal duties involved might have been set forth in the most impassioned eloquence, Sabbath after Sabbath, without much disturbing the fine equipose of Mr. Braxton.

All's for the Best 1847

Thus, for Brooks, Obama is a reinvented founding father and his value is in his Franklinesque "discipline, equipose and self-control."

The Great Seduction 2009

Why can’t Obama simply claim that his desire for empathy in a judge is not lawless because either a in the 5% of the cases he wants empathy the law IS in perfect equipose, because he thinks cases which are sufficiently close e.g.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power: 2009