单词 | outpoise |
释义 | outpoisev. transitive. To outweigh; to outdo; to count for more than. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [verb (transitive)] overweigh?c1225 outweigh1562 preponderate1611 preponder1624 outpoise1630 outbalance1642 overbear1712 1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 268 The very meanest of which..may alone outpoise them all. 1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 8 Love of an immortall soule, that in worth out-poyseth the whole world. 1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-Mother iv. i. 101 Naked likelihood Outpoises all thin guess and accident. 1886 A. C. Swinburne Misc. 150-1 A leaf of the Georgics would outpoise in value the whole of the ‘Excursion’. 1988 Sports Illustr. (Nexis) 26 Sept. 94 Miami has learned not only to steamroller Oklahoma, but also to outpoise everyone else. 2001 Boston Globe 18 Nov. d20 We got to beat the puck all night long. They outhit us and outpoised us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1630 |
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