Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To counterbalance.
- transitive verb To give equal balance or weight to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be equal in weight; weigh as much as another thing.
- To weigh as much as in an opposite scale; counterbalance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing.
- transitive verb To make equal in weight; to counterbalance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
counterbalance .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.”
Waverley 2004
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Momentarily left to itself amid grounded vehicles and mountains of supplies, the stunned Amplitur struggled to equiponderate its equilibrium.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Momentarily left to itself amid grounded vehicles and mountains of supplies, the stunned Amplitur struggled to equiponderate its equilibrium.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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` ` Why, you know, Tacitus saith ` _In rebus bellicis maxime dominatur Fortuna, + which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, ` Luck can maist in the mellee.
The Waverley 1877
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[11] But in this instance, perhaps, distance of space, combined with the unrivalled grandeur of the war, was felt to equiponderate the distance of time, Susa, the Persian capital, being fourteen hundred miles from Athens.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee."
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee."
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee."
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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FORTUNA, "which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage," Luck can maist in the mellee. "
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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