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equipollency|iːkwɪˈpɒlənsɪ|
Also 7 æq-, equipollencie, 9 æquipollency.
[f. equipollent: see -ency.]
1. Equivalence in signification, authority, efficacy, virtue, etc. Cf. equipollence 1.
1623Rowlandson God's Bless. 5 They have an equipollency, or equall weight, with the plainest precepts. a1638Mede in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xl. II. 273 What equipollency can be in sense between these two? a1691Boyle Wks. (1772) III. 606 The endeavours of the one and the other were reduced to an equipollency. 1869M. Arnold Cult. & An. 183 The notion of this sort of equipollency in man's modes of activity.
2. Logic. = equipollence 2.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 199 The equipollencie and opposition both of plaine and modal enunciations. 1788Reid Aristotle's Log. i. §4. 15 The equipollency of propositions both pure and modal. 1846Mill Logic ii. i. §2 Examples of æquipollency or equivalence of propositions. |