ponderationn.

Brit.

/ˌpɒndəˈreɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌpɑndəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: late Middle English ponderacion, 1500s ponderashin, 1600s– ponderation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ponderātiōn-, ponderātiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin ponderātiōn-, ponderātiō the marking of weights along the beam of a balance, in post-classical Latin also meditation, reflection (6th cent.), evaluation, judgement, weight (13th cent. in British sources), act of weighing (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), heaviness, weightiness (1363 in Chauliac in the passage translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense 1) < ponderāt- , past participial stem of ponderāre ponder v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French pondération careful pondering of a problem or issue (1455; now obsolete), moral weight (1501 in an apparently isolated attestation), heaviness (1519 in an apparently isolated attestation), equilibrium (1676, earliest as a technical term in painting), Spanish ponderación (1528 or earlier in sense 2a), Italian ponderazione pondering, musing (a1574 in this sense; earlier in sense ‘precarious balance’ (a1519)).

1. Heaviness, weightiness; (formerly) spec. †gravitation (obsolete). Also figurative. rare after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > moving towards by force of gravity

ponderation?a1425

gravitating1665

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 26^v Þe carbuncle augmented with diuerse colouryng..& with grete ponderacion [?c1425 Paris weyghte; L. ponderatione] of þe membre þat it is yn.

1662 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs 91 in New Exper. Physico-mechanicall (ed. 2) All Ponderation is an endeavour every way by right lines into the Centre of the Earth.

1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 2005 The Excellent Author demonstrates the Center of Gravity to be..that, as to all Ponderation, the whole weight may justly be reputed There to be.

1675 J. Wallis Disc. Gravity & Gravitation 12 'Tis true, that a different Position may give to the same Weight a different Ponderation.

1715 E. Barlow Meteorol. Ess. i. vi. 96 Hence..the Atmosphere's Gravitation grows more propense for want of his [sc. the Sun's] reverberated Rays to alleviate it by Rebound; and draws its Summer's and Winter's Ponderation towards an Equality.

1959 R. Myers tr. M. Pincherle Illustr. Hist. Music 110 His own Germanic qualities of ponderation and gravity.

a. The action or an act of mental weighing, assessment, or deliberation; pondering, contemplation, musing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun]

i-mindOE

studyinglOE

mindc1300

bethinking1340

poring1340

regard1348

weighingc1380

contemplationc1390

advisementa1393

deliberationa1393

advicec1405

reckoninga1413

visement?1414

considerancec1420

advisenessc1425

revolutionc1425

rewardc1432

mind-takingc1449

umbethinkingc1450

advisednessc1475

considering1483

beholding1530

meditationa1535

pondering1535

cogitation?1542

expending1545

ponderation1556

perpending1558

well weighing1566

surview1576

reflex1593

revolve1595

lucubration1596

agitation1600

perpension1612

vizamenta1616

pensitation1623

perpensation1623

perpendment1667

ruminating1668

commentationa1670

revolving1670

reflectiona1674

introspectiona1676

propendencya1676

ponderment1728

chawing1845

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 43 Weing this thing in ponderashin, In hering of him what equaltie ye show.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) vi. 346 Most of those meanes..require a certaine meditation and ponderation.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 12 The consideration and ponderation of which..maketh mee not so promptly to approve [etc.].

1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 110 Your nicest ponderation ought to be imploy'd.

1788 J. Byng Diary 20 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 363 After an hours ponderation..I deliver'd my horse to a mason.

1866 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 123 303 After a comparison and ponderation of evidence.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. vi. xl. 339 It was all matter for the kind of quiet ponderation the little man who so kept his wandering way had made his own.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 326/3 Look at the irrelevant ponderations of Wladimir d'Ormesson and ‘Guermantes’ in Le Figaro on Guernica.

2000 Tucson Citizen (Nexis) 13 Sept. 15 a It's fact, based on my observations as a journalist, and opinion, founded on my synthesis of observation and ponderation.

b. The action or an act of weighing, balancing, or adjustment of weight; balance, equilibrium. Now frequently with reference to ancient Greek sculpture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun]

peisinga1382

weighing1430

weighta1483

balancing1599

perlibration1623

trutination1633

ponderation1646

libration1657

scaling1841

weighment1878

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 196 Upon an immediate ponderation, we could discover no sensible difference in weight.

1665 C. Merrett Acct. Freezing 31 in R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold Besides that freezing adds no weight, 'tis apparent in sealed Glasses, from whence nothing can expire, and by exact ponderation of them, I could not perceive any the least difference in weight in the said triple state.

1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting i. xiii. 31 In the Attitudes, the Ponderation, and the Contrast are founded in nature.

1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies iii. 65 The Quantity of perspired Matter found by Ponderation.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 408 The ponderation of air, the fixation of mercury.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. Comm. 538 The numeration, ponderation, or mensuration of the principal.

1927 F. P. Johnson Lysippos v. 114 The ponderation too is very similar. Both figures are represented in unstable positions, which endure but a moment.

1995 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 99 488/1 The shoulders are thrust backward, the hips forward, creating a ponderation not found in statues of Polykleitan type or date.

†3. Something that adds weight; an onerous element, circumstance, or influence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > influential

ponderation1609

biggie1945

1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 74 Who with a Catalogue of great names, with Ponderations, and Considerations thinke to beard the truth.

1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie iii. xiii. 322 Because his heart told him, how light these proofes were, he layes in the scales with them certaine graue ponderations.

1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 236 Let pietie bee the first moouer of thine affection, the prime and principall ponderation in this greatest affaire.

4. = preponderance n. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > gravity or seriousness

peisec1425

poise1457

griefa1513

gravity1533

ponderosity1589

ponderance1600

pitha1616

seriousness1797

ponderation1873

gravitas1924

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 35 It is not the ponderation of personal evidence for or against a word that should accredit or discredit it.

2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 16 Low's unwieldy installation, with its ponderation of buckets, does not exactly glow with optimism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ponderation
释义	ponderationn. Brit. /ˌpɒndəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌpɑndəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: late Middle English ponderacion, 1500s ponderashin, 1600s– ponderation. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ponderātiōn-, ponderātiō. Etymology: < classical Latin ponderātiōn-, ponderātiō the marking of weights along the beam of a balance, in post-classical Latin also meditation, reflection (6th cent.), evaluation, judgement, weight (13th cent. in British sources), act of weighing (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), heaviness, weightiness (1363 in Chauliac in the passage translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense 1) < ponderāt- , past participial stem of ponderāre ponder v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French pondération careful pondering of a problem or issue (1455; now obsolete), moral weight (1501 in an apparently isolated attestation), heaviness (1519 in an apparently isolated attestation), equilibrium (1676, earliest as a technical term in painting), Spanish ponderación (1528 or earlier in sense 2a), Italian ponderazione pondering, musing (a1574 in this sense; earlier in sense ‘precarious balance’ (a1519)). 1. Heaviness, weightiness; (formerly) spec. †gravitation (obsolete). Also figurative. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > moving towards by force of gravity ponderation?a1425 gravitating1665 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 26^v Þe carbuncle augmented with diuerse colouryng..& with grete ponderacion [?c1425 Paris weyghte; L. ponderatione] of þe membre þat it is yn. 1662 R. Boyle Examen Mr. T. Hobbs 91 in New Exper. Physico-mechanicall (ed. 2) All Ponderation is an endeavour every way by right lines into the Centre of the Earth. 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 2005 The Excellent Author demonstrates the Center of Gravity to be..that, as to all Ponderation, the whole weight may justly be reputed There to be. 1675 J. Wallis Disc. Gravity & Gravitation 12 'Tis true, that a different Position may give to the same Weight a different Ponderation. 1715 E. Barlow Meteorol. Ess. i. vi. 96 Hence..the Atmosphere's Gravitation grows more propense for want of his [sc. the Sun's] reverberated Rays to alleviate it by Rebound; and draws its Summer's and Winter's Ponderation towards an Equality. 1959 R. Myers tr. M. Pincherle Illustr. Hist. Music 110 His own Germanic qualities of ponderation and gravity. 2. a. The action or an act of mental weighing, assessment, or deliberation; pondering, contemplation, musing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] i-mindOE studyinglOE mindc1300 bethinking1340 poring1340 regard1348 weighingc1380 contemplationc1390 advisementa1393 deliberationa1393 advicec1405 reckoninga1413 visement?1414 considerancec1420 advisenessc1425 revolutionc1425 rewardc1432 mind-takingc1449 umbethinkingc1450 advisednessc1475 considering1483 beholding1530 meditationa1535 pondering1535 cogitation?1542 expending1545 ponderation1556 perpending1558 well weighing1566 surview1576 reflex1593 revolve1595 lucubration1596 agitation1600 perpension1612 vizamenta1616 pensitation1623 perpensation1623 perpendment1667 ruminating1668 commentationa1670 revolving1670 reflectiona1674 introspectiona1676 propendencya1676 ponderment1728 chawing1845 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lvi. 43 Weing this thing in ponderashin, In hering of him what equaltie ye show. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) vi. 346 Most of those meanes..require a certaine meditation and ponderation. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 12 The consideration and ponderation of which..maketh mee not so promptly to approve [etc.]. 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 110 Your nicest ponderation ought to be imploy'd. 1788 J. Byng Diary 20 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 363 After an hours ponderation..I deliver'd my horse to a mason. 1866 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 123 303 After a comparison and ponderation of evidence. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. vi. xl. 339 It was all matter for the kind of quiet ponderation the little man who so kept his wandering way had made his own. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 326/3 Look at the irrelevant ponderations of Wladimir d'Ormesson and ‘Guermantes’ in Le Figaro on Guernica. 2000 Tucson Citizen (Nexis) 13 Sept. 15 a It's fact, based on my observations as a journalist, and opinion, founded on my synthesis of observation and ponderation. b. The action or an act of weighing, balancing, or adjustment of weight; balance, equilibrium. Now frequently with reference to ancient Greek sculpture. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] peisinga1382 weighing1430 weighta1483 balancing1599 perlibration1623 trutination1633 ponderation1646 libration1657 scaling1841 weighment1878 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 196 Upon an immediate ponderation, we could discover no sensible difference in weight. View more context for this quotation 1665 C. Merrett Acct. Freezing 31 in R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold Besides that freezing adds no weight, 'tis apparent in sealed Glasses, from whence nothing can expire, and by exact ponderation of them, I could not perceive any the least difference in weight in the said triple state. 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting i. xiii. 31 In the Attitudes, the Ponderation, and the Contrast are founded in nature. 1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies iii. 65 The Quantity of perspired Matter found by Ponderation. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 408 The ponderation of air, the fixation of mercury. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iv. Comm. 538 The numeration, ponderation, or mensuration of the principal. 1927 F. P. Johnson Lysippos v. 114 The ponderation too is very similar. Both figures are represented in unstable positions, which endure but a moment. 1995 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 99 488/1 The shoulders are thrust backward, the hips forward, creating a ponderation not found in statues of Polykleitan type or date. †3. Something that adds weight; an onerous element, circumstance, or influence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > influential ponderation1609 biggie1945 1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 74 Who with a Catalogue of great names, with Ponderations, and Considerations thinke to beard the truth. 1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie iii. xiii. 322 Because his heart told him, how light these proofes were, he layes in the scales with them certaine graue ponderations. 1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 236 Let pietie bee the first moouer of thine affection, the prime and principall ponderation in this greatest affaire. 4. = preponderance n. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > gravity or seriousness peisec1425 poise1457 griefa1513 gravity1533 ponderosity1589 ponderance1600 pitha1616 seriousness1797 ponderation1873 gravitas1924 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 35 It is not the ponderation of personal evidence for or against a word that should accredit or discredit it. 2000 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 16 Low's unwieldy installation, with its ponderation of buckets, does not exactly glow with optimism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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