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self-poised, ppl. a.
[self- 3 b.]
Poised or balanced by its own unaided power or without support. Also fig. of persons, their actions, etc.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 1 Nor hung the selfe⁓poiz'd Earth in thin Ayre plac't. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad x. 442 Each movement still beginning, still compleat, It's Author's type, self poised, perfection's seat. 1802Wordsw. To a Butterfly 2 I've watched you now a full half-hour, Self-poised upon that yellow flower. 1838Tupper Proverb. Philos. Ser. i. Of Subjection 7 The self-poised character of God. 1875Longfellow Masque of Pandora iv, Thy form Self-poised as if it floated on the air.
Hence self-ˈpoisedness.
1848Westm. Rev. XLIX. 339 This favourite notion of man's self-poisedness. |