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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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86 words match “PONDER”

PONDER v. 3 definitions

gh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26.

PONDERABILITY n.

The quality or state of being ponderable.

Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n.

Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.

Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.] M'Culloch.

PONDERATE v. 2 definitions

To consider; to ponder. [R.]

The act of weighing. [R.] Arbuthnot.

One who ponders.

Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.

PONDEROUS a. 3 definitions

Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak.

PONDEROUSLY adv.

In a ponderous manner.

PONDEROUSNESS n.

The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

COUNTERPONDERATE v.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

One who desponds.

EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY n.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

EQUIPONDERANT a.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

EQUIPONDERATE v. 2 definitions

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

EQUIPONDEROUS a.

Having equal weight. Bailey.