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outpoised

outpoised is the simple past and past participle of outpoise.

Meaning of outpoise

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

Questions about outpoised

What is outpoised the simple past and past participle of?
Outpoised is the simple past and past participle of outpoise.

Words near outpoised in the dictionary

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

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