Crossword clues for preponderate
preponderate
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.
Preponderate \Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. i. To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.
That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will
not preponderate.
--Bp. Wilkins.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance. 2 (context transitive English) To overpower by stronger or moral power. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. 4 (context intransitive English) To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
WordNet
v. weigh more heavily [syn: outweigh, overbalance, outbalance]
Usage examples of "preponderate".
What, however, was beyond denial was, that if the polar ice and snow were not so purely and distinctly white as they appear at a distance upon Earth, they were yet to a great extent devoid of the yellow tinge that preponderated everywhere else.
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.
And in balancing his faults with his perfections, the latter seemed rather to preponderate.
Approaching them, he paid his compliments with great earnestness, and in a voice in which his softest tones preponderated.
In those early days, when the Constitution was being framed, there was nothing to force the small States into a union with those whose populations preponderated.
All the time that he had been speaking, the dubious-looking men with carbines and dirty slouch hats had been gathering silently in such preponderating numbers that even Muscari was compelled to recognize his sally with the sword as hopeless.
Her, or perhaps Sir Horace’s, acquaintances preponderated at her aunt’s board, but not even Miss Wraxton, on the watch for signs of presumption in her, could find any fault with her demeanor.
If convenience preponderates in favor of either view, that is a sufficient reason for its adoption.