equiponderate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of equiponderate
1635–45; < Medieval Latin aequiponderātus, past participle of aequiponderāre. See equi-, ponder, -ate 1
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It was the traditional policy of the Tartar to check the Russian princes the one by the other, to feed their dissensions, to cause their forces to equiponderate, and to allow none to consolidate himself.
From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Marx, Karl
You are to ascend the deep arcana of nature, and dispose of my client with equiponderating concatenation, in reference to his future velocity and reverberating momentum.
From The American Union Speaker by Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley)
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