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counterpoiseth

counterpoiseth is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Origin of counterpoiseth

counterpoise + -eth

Questions about counterpoiseth

What is counterpoiseth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Counterpoiseth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of counterpoise.

Words near counterpoiseth in the dictionary

  1. counterpoise
  2. counterpoise-lift
  3. counterpoise-lifts
  4. counterpoised
  5. counterpoises
  6. counterpoiseth
  7. counterpoising
  8. counterpoison
  9. counterpoisons
  10. counterpolarization
  11. counterpolarizations

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