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Webster 1913 Edition

Equipoise

E′qui-poise

,
Noun.
[
Equi-
+
poise
.]
1.
Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced, and hence equal; state of being equally balanced; – said of moral, political, or social interests or forces.
The means of preserving the
equipoise
and the tranquillity of the commonwealth.
Burke.
Our little lives are kept in
equipoise

By opposite attractions and desires.
Longfellow.
2.
Counterpoise.

Webster 1828 Edition

Equipoise

E'QUIPOISE

,
Noun.
s as z. [L. oequus, equal.] Equality of weight or force; hence, equilibrium; a state in which the two ends or sides of a thing are balanced. Hold the scales in equipoise. The mind may be in a state of equipoise, when motives are of equal weight.

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