Equipoise vs Equiponderant - What's the difference?
equipoise | equiponderant | Synonyms |
A state of balance; equilibrium.
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* 1869 , , Ch. IV,
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A counterbalance.
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To act or make to act as an equipoise.
To cause to be or stay in equipoise.
(obsolete) Having equal weight.
* {{quote-book, year=1803, author=Thomas Jefferson, title=Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In an absolute government there can be no such equiponderant parties. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1837, author=Thomas Love Peacock, title=Headlong Hall, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Thus, the scales of my philosophical balance remain eternally equiponderant , and I see no reason to say of either of them, OICHETAI EIS AIDAO[15.1]." }}
Equipoise is a synonym of equiponderant.
As a proper noun equipoise
is (pharmaceutical drug|trademark) market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.As an adjective equiponderant is
(obsolete) having equal weight.equipoise
English
(wikipedia equipoise)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
- “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise .
- The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
- And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise .
- The cone’s not fixed, it’s hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise .
Verb
equiponderant
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
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