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equipollent, a. and n.|iːkwɪˈpɒlənt|
Also 5–7 equipolent, (5–6 equypolent, 8 equippolent), 6–7 æquipol(l)ent.
[a. OF. equipolent (mod.F. équipollent), ad. L. æquipollent-em of equal value, f. æquus equal + pollentem, pr. pple. of pollēre to be strong.]
A. adj.
†1. Of persons: Possessed of equal power, authority, influence, rank, or personal capacity. Obs.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2108 They wolden waite to be equipolent, And somewhat more, unto her husbondes. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714) 68 Ther may no gretter Perill growe to a Prince, than to have a Subgett equipolent to himself. 1548Hall Chron. (1809) 163 Fewe princes..be to hym comparable or equipollent. 1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. i. (1876) 22 Being in capacity and memory both els equipolent. 1824–9Landor Wks. (1846) I. 393 A maritime power..equipollent on the sea with France.
2. Of things, forces, or agencies: Equal in power, effectiveness, or validity.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. xii. 5 The thoughtfulle wight is vesselle of turment, There is no greef to hym equipollent. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. vii. v. in Ashm. (1652) 170 After thyne Elements be made equypolent. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 291 Saynt Mylgyde the thyrde, of vertu equypolent. 1607–12Bacon Ess. Custom & Educ. (Arb.) 368 Votarie resolucion is made equipollent to Custome. 1686Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 143 The Pressure of the Atmospheere, and the resistence of the Bubble [were] by Accident..near æquipollent. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. ix. (1819) 111 By the aid of a considerable and equipollent muscular force. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma Introd. 28 To regard the Bible..as a sort of talisman..with all its parts equipollent.
3. Identical in effect or result; practically equivalent.
1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 165 To find the Longitude of any place, or some thing æquipollent thereunto. c1730Berkeley in Fraser Life v. 180 The divine conservation is equipollent to..a continued repeated creation. 1790Wildbore Spher. Motion in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 530 An equipollent parallelopipedon which shall move in the very same manner as the body. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. viii. 435 A uniformity of measure, which the use of nearly equipollent feet cannot..be thought to impair. 1846Sir W. Hamilton New Anal. Log. Forms in Logic II. (1860) 260 The equipollent forms of Limitation or Inclusion, and Exception. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. vii. 292 Equipollent conceptions could be placed side by side in apposition.
b. Of expressions or symbols: Equivalent in meaning.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 13/1 The Greeke word ἀπειρόκαλος is equipollent to Ineptus. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iii. §1 (1622) 212 Two Philosophicall termes, in sense æquipollent vnto the very name of God. 1760Swinton Coin in Phil. Trans. LI. 865 The characters..were not precisely the same with those of the equipollent letters used in Umbria. 1858Trench Synon. N.T. (1876) 299 Ὑπέρ shall be accepted as equipollent with ἀντί.
c. In Logic. Said esp. of propositions which express the same thing, notwithstanding formal diversity.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xv. 66 Indefinite propositions are æquipollent to uniuersall. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 40 Equipollent propositions..that may be reduced purely to one and the same categorical proposition. 1822T. Taylor tr. Apuleius 381 Every proposition likewise, if it assumes in the beginning a negative particle, becomes its equipollent contradictory. 1846Mill Logic ii. i. §2 The original proposition..is first changed into a proposition æquipollent with it.
B. n. Something that has equal power, weight, effect, importance, or significance; an equivalent.
1611Sclater Key (1629) 337 Are they not equipollents? 1612― Ministers Portion 13 In the Apostles Logicke, a Priest and receiver of tithes are equipollents. 1671True Nonconf. 280 Because we exactly and fully do the equipollent. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 30 What is Declared..is the very Equipollent of what the Author had said. 1819Blackw. Mag. IV. 723 ‘Choice set terms’, for which there is absolutely no equipollent in any of the other languages of Europe. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 420 The word ἀχαιοί is used..as the simple equipollent of Greek. 1870Bowen Logic v. 136 Its logical equipollent.
Hence equipollentness = equipollence 2.
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