Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Preponderate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Preponderate \Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. i.
To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the
scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence,
power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the
affirmative side preponderated.
That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will
not preponderate. --Bp. Wilkins.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Preponderate \Pre*pon"der*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Preponderated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preponderating}.] [L.
praeponderatus, p. p. of praeponderare; prae before +
ponderare to weigh, fr., pondus, ponderis, a weight. See
{Ponder}.]
1. To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight;
to overbalance.
An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the
center of the balance, will preponderate greater
magnitudes. --Glanvill.
2. To overpower by stronger or moral power.
3. To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [Obs.]
The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates
him for peace. --Fuller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
preponderate
v : weigh more heavily [syn: {outweigh}, {overbalance}, {outbalance}]
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