Category:Preponderate

Pre*pon"der*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preponderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Preponderating.] Etym: [l. praeponderatus, p. p. of praeponderare; Prae before + ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. See ponder.]

1. 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.

2. To overpower by stronger or moral power.

3. 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.

Defn: 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.