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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9 words match “OUTWEIGH”

OUTWEIGH v.
To exceed in weight or value.
OUTBALANCE v.
To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.
OUTPOISE v.
To outweigh. Howell.
OVERBALANCE v.
To exceed equality with; to outweigh. Locke.
OVERPOISE v.
To outweigh; to overbalance. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
PREPONDERANCE; PREPONDERANCY n.
ate 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 Europe, and had restor…
PREPONDERANT a.
Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.
PREPONDERATE v.
To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.
SELF-APPROVING a.
one's own action or character by one's own judgment. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. Pope.