† preˈgravitate, præ-, v. Obs. rare.
[pre- A. 5.]
intr. To gravitate more (than something else).
| 1685 Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. vi. 189 Water does gravitate in Water, as well as out of it, though indeed it does not prægravitate, because 'tis Counter-ballanc'd by an equal weight of Collateral Water, which keeps it from descending. 1722 Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2) 187/1 Those things which do not pre-gravitate in the Air, Water, &c. the Vulgar take to have no Gravity. |