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æquipoise

æquipoise is the obsolete form of equipoise.

Meaning of equipoise

Noun

equipoise (countable and uncountable, plural equipoises)

  1. A state of balance; equilibrium.
    • Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles]...
  2. A counterbalance.
    • Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136

See all 5 meanings of equipoise

Forms of æquipoise

pluralæquipoises

Questions about æquipoise

What is æquipoise the obsolete form of?
Æquipoise is the obsolete form of equipoise.

Words near æquipoise in the dictionary

  1. æquinoctes
  2. æquinoctial
  3. æquinoctials
  4. æquinox
  5. æquinoxes
  6. æquipoise
  7. æquipoises
  8. æquiponderant
  9. æquipotential
  10. æquison
  11. æquisonant

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