Meanings
verboutpoise (third-person singular simple present outpoises, present participle outpoising, simple past and past participle outpoised)
present singular third person outpoises · participle present outpoising · participle past outpoised · past outpoised
- archaictransitiveTo outweigh.
if your parts of virtue, and your infirmities were caſt into a balance, I know the first would much out-poise the other
1655, James Howell, “To Captain Tho. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC
Origin
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