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counterpeize

counterpeize is the obsolete form of counterpoise.

Meaning of counterpoise

Verb

counterpoise (third-person singular simple present counterpoises, present participle counterpoising, simple past and past participle counterpoised)

  1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
    • Weights, counterpoising one another.1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of...
  2. To act against with equal power; to balance.
    • So many freeholders of English […]will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...

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Questions about counterpeize

What is counterpeize the obsolete form of?
Counterpeize is the obsolete form of counterpoise.

Words near counterpeize in the dictionary

  1. counterpassions
  2. counterpassword
  3. counterpasswords
  4. counterpayment
  5. counterpayments
  6. counterpeize
  7. counterpenalties
  8. counterpenalty
  9. counterpeople
  10. counterperson
  11. counterpersons

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