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Webster 1913 Edition
Preponderate
Pre-pon′der-ate
,Verb.
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.
Pre-pon′der-ate
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Preponderate
PREPOND'ERATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To outweigh; to overpower by weight. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
2.
To overpower by stronger influence or moral power.PREPOND'ERATE
,Verb.
I.
That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate.
1.
To exceed in influence or power; hence, to incline to one side. By putting every argument on one side and the other, into the balance, we must form a judgment which side preponderates.