Definitions for poize
poize

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Poizenoun

   Etymology: poids, French.

   1. Weight; force of any thing tending to the center.

   He fell, as an huge rockie clift,
   Whose false foundation, waves have wash’d away
   With dreadful poize, is from the main land reft. F. Queen.

   When I have suit,
   It shall be full of poize and difficulty,
   And fearful to be granted. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   2. Balance; equipoize; equilibrium.

   To do’t at peril of your soul,
   Were equal poize of sin and charity. William Shakespeare.

   Where an equal poize of hope and fear
   Does arbitrate th’ event, my nature is
   That I incline to hope. John Milton.

   The particles that formed the earth, must convene from all quarters towards the middle, which would make the whole compound to rest in a poize. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

   ’Tis odd to see fluctuation in opinion so earnestly charged upon Luther, by such as have lived half their days in a poize between two churches. Francis Atterbury.

   3. A regulating power.

   Men of an unbounded imagination often want the poize of judgment. Dryden.

2. To Poizeverb

   Etymology: peser, French.

   1. To balance; to hold or place in equiponderance.

   How nice to couch? how all her speeches poized be:
   A nymph thus turn’d, but mended in translation. Philip Sidney.

   As the sands
   Of Barca or Cyrene’s torrid soil,
   Levy’d to side with warring winds, and poize
   Their lighter wings. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ii.

   Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky,
   Nor poiz’d did on her own foundation lie. Dryden.

   Our nation with united int’rest blest,
   Not now content to poize, shall sway the rest. Dryden.

   Where could they find another form’d so fit,
   To poize with solid sense a sprightly wit! Dryden.

   Th’ all-perfect mind
   That poiz’d, impels and rules the steady whole. James Thomson.

   2. To be equiponderant to.

   If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poize another of sensuality, the baseness of our natures would conduct us to preposterous conclusions. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   3. To weigh.

   We poizing us in her defective scale
   Shall weigh thee to the beam. William Shakespeare.

   He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poize the weight and discern the evidence of the clearest argumentations, where they would conclude against his desires. Robert South, Sermons.

   4. To oppress with weight.

   I’ll strive, with troubl’d thoughts, to take a nap,
   Lest leaden slumber poize me down to-morrow,
   When I should mount with wings of victory. William Shakespeare.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Poizenoun

   see Poise

How to pronounce poize?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of poize in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of poize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=poize
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poize