The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overpoise
Overpoise \O`ver*poise"\, v. t.
To outweigh; to overbalance. [R.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Overpoise
Overpoise \O"ver*poise`\, n.
Preponderant weight; a counterbalance. [R.]
--Mrs. Browning.
Wiktionary
overpoise
n. preponderant weight; a counterbalance vb. (context obsolete English) To outweigh.
Usage examples of "overpoise".
The Soul of the All, as an entirety, governs the universe through that part of it which leans to the body side, but since it does not exercise a will based on calculation as we do--but proceeds by purely intellectual act as in the execution of an artistic conception--its ministrance is that of a labourless overpoising, only its lowest phase being active upon the universe it embellishes.