libraten.
/lʌɪˈbreɪt/, /ˈlʌɪbreɪt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪˌbreɪt/ Historical.
A piece of land worth a pound a year.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land worth specific amount per annum
pennylanda1300
pennyland1439
soudeec1450
pennyworth of land1499
penny1504
uris-land1534
uris-cop1609
librate1610
obolate1610
solidate1610
ure of land1774
ounceland1805
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vii. 59 Then must the Obolat be ½ Acre, the Denariat an Acre, the Solidat 12. acres, & the Librat 240.
1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 26 Henry III..grants..ten librates [Dugdale decem libratas terræ] in Longenedale in Derbyshire.
1865 F. M. Nichols tr. Britton II. 143 Twenty librates of land with the appurtenances.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (1896) II. xiv. 119 The sheriffs were ordered to send all persons who possessed more than twenty librates of land.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
libratev.
/lʌɪˈbreɪt/, /ˈlʌɪbreɪt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪˌbreɪt/ a. To place in the scales, to weigh. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > ascertain the weight of [verb (transitive)]
weighc1000
aweighOE
peisea1382
poise1458
ponder?1518
pound1570
tron1609
perpenda1612
librate1623
scale1691
weight1734
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Librate, to weigh.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iv, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. T3v All seeds..are librated by weight [L. pondere semper librantur].
b. To poise, balance. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > about a point of equilibrium
librate1667
balance1728
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 423 The Needles be touched by good Load-stones, and well librated.
c. To produce or cause libration in: see quot. 1806 for librating n. and adj. at Derivatives below. Obsolete.
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1675 Philos. Trans. 1674 (Royal Soc.) 9 219 The manner of Librating the Apogéum.
2.
a. intransitive. To oscillate like the beam of a balance; to move from side to side or up and down.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > about a point of equilibrium
librate1694
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony ii. 36 Librating after the Nature of a Pendulum.
1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 298 I was obliged to keep it in a Motion..librating up and down like the Beam of a Pair of Scales.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 70 The whole limb of Venus would sometimes librate towards the limb of the sun.
1867 G. MacDonald Disciple & other Poems 109 To drop, and spin away, Librating.
b. To oscillate or waver between one thing and another.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > between two things
librate1856
1822 Examiner 250/2 He..is librating between vice and virtue.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. 34 The barometer slowly librating between 29.20 and the old 30.40.
3. Of a bird, etc.: To be poised, balance itself.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > be poised or balance
librate1786
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 198 The birds of the air, librating over me, served as a canopy from the rays of the sun.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 138 Her playful sea-horse..librates on unmoving fins.
1829 Jrnl. Naturalist 263 Made to flutter and librate like a kestrel over the place.
Derivatives
ˈlibrated adj. balanced (figurative).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > balanced
balanced1625
librated1801
equiponderated1820
1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 95 The academic vigour the librated style of Annibale Carracci.
ˈlibrating n. and adj.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > about a point of equilibrium
librating1666
libratory1668
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > oscillation about a point of equilibrium
libration1603
librating1806
balancing1868
1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 241 Some kind of Librating motion.
1806 Robertson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 73 The librating force or pressure, or the force causing libration.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 332 These strange librating bonds of birth and death.
1862 T. Z. Lawrence in R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 15 A librating circular smoky spectrum will be perceived at the end of the tube.
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