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Counterpoise   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."


noun
Counterpoise  n.  
1.
A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight. "Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale."
2.
An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force. "The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent."
3.
The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance. "The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In counterpoise."





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"Counterpoise" Quotes from Famous Books



... his glory, which would admit no others than those of the universe itself. The uncertainty in which we were left by that fatal event rendering it necessary that we should secure the safety of the state by the counterpoise of a certain body of troops, we found ourselves constrained to employ a portion of the finances in maintaining during a few months a large military force which had already been raised; so that this outlay, ...
— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe
... were then made by the Austrian Minister, Count Buol. The first was based on the principle of counterpoise, which would give the Allies the right to keep as many ships as Russia in the Black Sea. The second was a stipulation that Russia should not increase her fleet there beyond the strength at which ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
... Rome at that hour, that there was still in the commonwealth, a counterpoise to the Democratic Spirit; which, vehement and energetical beyond all others in sudden and great emergencies, is ever restless and impatient of protracted watchfulness and preparation, and lacks that persistency and resolute endurance which seems ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert
... recalls only the past, and half their sweetness becomes bitter in the process. I have a tenacious and acute memory, and, as the phrenologists affirm, no hope, and feel disposed to lament that, not having both, I have either. The one seems the necessary counterpoise of the other; the one is the source of most of the pain, as the other is of most of the pleasure, which we derive from the things that are not; and I feel daily more and more my deficiency in ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... Russia's cooeperation alone was this possible. Napoleon's present plan, therefore, was to secure France and the French Empire, as far as won, by compelling the world to a lasting peace through the immediate establishment of a counterpoise, the French and Russian empires against Great Britain, leaving time to do its perfect work of exasperating the rising naval power of the United States into open hostility against the ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane


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