equipollent
Americanadjective
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equal in power, effect, etc.; equivalent.
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Logic. (of propositions, propositional forms, etc.) logically equivalent in any of various specified ways.
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adjective
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equal or equivalent in significance, power, or effect
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logic (of two propositions) logically deducible from each other; equivalent
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maths logic (of two classes) having the same cardinality
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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of equipollent
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin aequipollent- (stem of aequipollēns ) of equal value, equivalent to aequi- equi- + pollent- (stem of pollēns ) able, present participle of pollēre to be strong
Example Sentences
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Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis
Hill's eloquence exceeded his judgment; Stephens' judgment was superior to his oratorical power; in Toombs these were equipollent.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.
But, since is and exists are equipollent, and so being and existing, is being is the same as the unimpeachable is existing.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
And then said a Clerk to me, "Is not the Word of GOD, and GOD Himself equipollent, that is, of one authority?"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
Nor is aught of an equipollent conflict seen, nor the weaker's flashed device; Headless is offered a breast to beaks deliberate, formal, assured, precise.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
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