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Preponderate v. t. (past & past part. preponderated; pres. part. preponderating)

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."

To overpower by stronger or moral power.

To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide. (Obs.) "The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace."

Preponderate v. i. 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."

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