librating

Verb

librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)

1. (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
   • Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.1796, William Cliffton, The Group
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To waver or deliberate between two opposing thoughts or choices.
   • But she winds about him coil after coil of her glittering rhetoric, in which reason holds its own as it librates with specious feeling.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 168
3. (intransitive) To be poised; to balance oneself.
   • Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 138
4. (obsolete, transitive) To place in a balance; to weigh.

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