outˈpoise, v.
[out- 18 b.]
trans. To outweigh, to overbalance. Hence outˈpoising ppl. a.
| 1630 Prynne Anti-Armin. 268 The meanest of which..may alone outpoise them all. 1651 Howell Venice 199 His outpoising power keeps the inferior Princes in peace. 1656 Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 8 Love of an immortall soule, that in worth out-poyseth the whole world. 1886 Swinburne Misc. 150-1 A leaf of the Georgics would outpoise in value the whole of the ‘Excursion’. |