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equipollence|iːkwɪˈpɒləns|
Also 5 equipolence, 8–9 æquipollence.
[a. OF. equipolence, mod.Fr. équipollence, ad. L. æquipollentia, f. æquipollent-em equipollent.]
The quality of being equipollent.
1. Equality of force, power, or signification.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xlix. (1869) 199, I shal fynde in þis place countrepeis and equipollence of þe hegge of penitence. a1528Skelton Poems 173 That in his equipollence He judgeth him equivalent With God Omnipotent. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 242 Our Commentators missed to make a large discourse of æquipolences in this place. 1647Power of the Keys iii. 35 The equipollence of the word Sacerdos and Episcopus being observed. a1691Boyle Wks. III. 612 These phænomena do much depend upon a mechanical æquipollence of pressure. 1867Emerson Progr. Culture Wks. (Bohn) III. 228 There is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
2. Logic. An equivalence between two or more propositions. Cf. equipollent 3 c.
c1400Rom. Rose 7078 Late hym study in equipolences. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1008/1 So that non omnis, after the rule of equipollence, should be taken for as much as nullus. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 313/2 Of Reciprocation there are three kinds..the third..equipollence. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §4 The Conversion and Opposition, and Equipollence of these modal Propositions. 1851Mansel Proleg. Log. vi. (1860) 220 The equipollence in some cases can only be determined materially. |