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outpoise

outpoise verb: to outweigh.

Verb

outpoise (third-person singular simple present outpoises, present participle outpoising, simple past and past participle outpoised)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To outweigh.
    • if your parts of virtue, and your infirmities were caſt into a balance, I know the first would much out-poise the other1655, James Howell, “To Captain Tho. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC

Forms of outpoise

third-person singular presentoutpoises
present participleoutpoising
past participleoutpoised
pastoutpoised

Origin of outpoise

From out- + poise.

Questions about outpoise

What does outpoise mean?
Outpoise means to outweigh.
What part of speech is outpoise?
Outpoise is a verb.
What is the past tense of outpoise?
The past tense of outpoise is outpoised.

Words near outpoise in the dictionary

  1. outpocketings
  2. outpoint
  3. outpointed
  4. outpointing
  5. outpoints
  6. outpoise
  7. outpoised
  8. outpoises
  9. outpoising
  10. outpoison
  11. outpoisoned

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