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The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.

Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

The quality or state of being imponderable.

Imponderable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Too heavy.

To preponderate [Obs.]

The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europ…

Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.

verbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.

To wiegh over and above. [Obs.]

atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

o preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke.

A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! South.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. I will consider thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 95. Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible. Milton.