The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preponderate \Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preponderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Preponderating.] [L. praeponderatus, p. p. of praeponderare; prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. See Ponder.]
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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. To overpower by stronger or moral power.
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To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [Obs.]
The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of preponderate English)
WordNet
adj. having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant]
Usage examples of "preponderating".
That is why, and even if they have a dose of the Teuton in them, they have often to feel themselves exiles when still in amicable community among the preponderating Saxon English.
It was to the interest of France to destroy Muscovite influence in the neighbourhood of the Mediterranean, and to limit the preponderating influence of the Russo-Greek church in Turkey.
Shan States, but though they are often the preponderating, they are not the exclusive population.
Every opportunity is seized to give a preponderating importance to Elias.