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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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