The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ponderal
Ponderal \Pon"der*al\, a. [Cf. F. pond['e]ral.]
Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from
numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.]
--Arbuthnot.
Wiktionary
ponderal
a. Pertaining to weight.
Usage examples of "ponderal".
Twelve of these denarii made a solidus, or shilling, the twentieth part of the ponderal and numeral livre, or pound of silver, which has been so strangely reduced in modern France.