Equipoises vs Equipoised - What's the difference?
equipoises | equipoised |
(equipoise)
A state of balance; equilibrium.
* 1794 , ,
* 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.
As verbs the difference between equipoises and equipoised
is that equipoises is (equipoise) while equipoised is (equipoise).equipoises
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Verb
(head)equipoise
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(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 .