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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Preponderate (0.00824 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: preponderate
preponderate
v : weigh more heavily [syn:
outweigh,
overbalance,
outbalance]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Preponderate
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.
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An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the
center of the balance, will preponderate greater
magnitudes. --Glanvill.
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2. To overpower by stronger or moral power.
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3. To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [Obs.]
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The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates
him for peace. --Fuller.
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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.
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That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will
not preponderate. --Bp. Wilkins.
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