outpoise
English
Verb
outpoise (third-person singular simple present outpoises, present participle outpoising, simple past and past participle outpoised)
- (archaic, transitive) To outweigh.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Captain Tho. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- if your parts of virtue, and your infirmities were caſt into a balance, I know the first would much out-poise the other
References
“outpoise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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