Preponderated vs Preponderates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between preponderated and preponderates

is that preponderated is past tense of preponderate while preponderates is third-person singular of preponderate.

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(Webster 1913)

(preponderat)

To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.

* Glanvill

An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the centre of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.

To overpower by stronger or moral power.

(obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.

* Fuller

The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.

To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate

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