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Counterpoised   Listen
verb
Counterpoise  v. t.  (past & past part. counterpoised; pres. part. counterpoising)  
1.
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. "Weights, counterpoising one another."
2.
To act against with equal power; to balance. "So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest."





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"Counterpoised" Quotes from Famous Books



... gladdened by his presence. But she knew that her influence was only suspended,—not extinct. The body attracted was for the moment kept from the body attracting by the abnormal weights that had dropped into its pockets. Restore the body thus temporarily counterpoised to its former lightness, and it would turn to Podden Place as the needle to the Pole. Meanwhile, oblivious of all such natural laws, the disloyal Jasper had fixed himself as far from the reach of the magnet as ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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