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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Overpoisenoun
Preponderant weight.
Etymology: from the verb.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, in his first and second book of odes, was still rising, but came not to his meridian till the third. After which his judgment was an over-poise to his imagination. He grew too cautious to be bold enough, for he descended in his fourth by slow degrees. Dryden.
Some over-poise of sway, by turns they share,
In peace the people, and the prince in war. Dryden.To Overpoiseverb
To outweigh.
Etymology: over and poise.
Whether cripples who have lost their thighs will float; their lungs being able to waft up their bodies, which are in others over-poised by the hinder legs; we have not made experiment. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Err. b. iv.
The scale
O’er-pois’d by darkness, lets the night prevail;
And day, that lengthen’d in the summer’s height,
Shortens till winter, and is lost in night. Thomas Creech.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Overpoise
ō′vėr-poiz, v.t. to outweigh.—n. O′verpoise, a weight sufficient to weigh another down.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of overpoise in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of overpoise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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