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Preponderate v. t. (past & past part. preponderated; pres. part. preponderating)

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."

To overpower by stronger or moral power.

To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. (Obs.) "The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace."

Preponderate 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."

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... of the question whether a continual improvement in education might not compensate for a stationary or even retrograde condition of natural gifts, I made inquiry into the life history of twins, which resulted in proving the vastly preponderating effects ...

— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton

... youths soon get bored, and when an African is bored—and he easily is so—he goes utterly to the bad. It is in these places that an industrial mission would be so valuable to the spiritual cause, for by employing and amusing the largely preponderating lower faculties of the African's mind, it would give the higher faculties time to develop. I have frequently been told when advocating technical instruction, that there are objections against it from spiritual standpoints, which, as my own views do ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... the more formidable of the two. This is the more important if it be allowed, as I believe to be the case, that velocity per se is of no practical import in the case of wounds of the soft parts of the body, which after all form the preponderating number of all gunshot injuries. The effect of the higher degrees of velocity differs, however, with the amount of resistance met with on the part of the body; hence its serious import is well exemplified ...

— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins

... countenance and general aspect bespoke them ordinary travellers, who meant to avail themselves of a "cheap train." All classes and conditions of men, women, and children were hustling each other in a state of great excitement; but the preponderating class was that which is familiarly though not ...

— The Iron Horse • R.M. Ballantyne

... and protect a revived State Government, constituted in whole, or in preponderating part, from the very element against whose hostility it is to be protected, is simply absurd. There must be a test by which to separate the opposing elements, so as to build only from the sound; and that test is a sufficiently liberal one which accepts as sound whoever ...

— History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, • Edumud G. Ross

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