equipollent

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • adjective Having equal power or force; equivalent.
  • adjective Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.

Examples

  • But the evidence against doing so is at least equipollent: Bayle claims, repeatedly and unequivocally, to be a believer.

    This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere

  • Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.

    The Essays

  • We shall find that such a conception is borne out by experience and observation, when we come to deal with the Earth as a magnet; because we shall afterwards learn that the Earth is an electro-magnet, possessing its magnetic field, which is co-existent and equipollent with its electric field.

    Aether and Gravitation

  • Masonry, like the equipollent ladders of its kindred institutions, always had seven steps, although in modern times the three principal or upper ones are alone alluded to.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry

  • Hill's eloquence exceeded his judgment; Stephens 'judgment was superior to his oratorical power; in Toombs these were equipollent.

    Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage

  • Read him aright, and measure by time, not syllables, and no lines can be more legitimate, — none in which the substitution of equipollent feet, and the modifications by emphasis, are managed with such exquisite judgment.

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher

Note

The word 'equipollent' comes from Latin roots meaning 'equal' and 'powerful'.