Preponderate /(?)/

Pre·pon·der·ate

Preponderate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Preponderated; p. pr. & vb. n. Preponderating

  1. 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.
  2. To overpower by stronger or moral power.
  3. To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. [Obs.]
    The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.

Preponderate

v. i.
  1. 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.