overpoise

== English == === Etymology === From over- +‎ poise. === Noun === overpoise (uncountable) (chiefly figurative) That which outweighs; excessive weight. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === overpoise (third-person singular simple present overpoises, present participle overpoising, simple past and past participle overpoised) (obsolete) To exceed in importance, strength or value. Synonym: outweigh 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Harrison et al., Volume 2, “A Treatise conteining a plaine and perfect description of Ireland,” p. 36,[4] But sith it pleased your maiestie, with so indifferent balance to ponder both our tales, I am throughlie persuaded, that my loiall innocencie shall be able, to ouerpoise his forged treacherie. 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Iliad, Book 1, lines 710-711, in The Works of William Cowper, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1837, Volume 11, p. 26,[6] […] thus we speed Ever, when evil overpoises good. (obsolete) To place excessive weight on (someone or something). Synonym: overburden 1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: N. Ekins, 3rd edition, Book 4, Chapter 6, p. 168,[8] Whether cripples and mutilated persons, who have lost the greatest part of their thighs, will not sink but float, their lungs being abler to waft up their bodies, which are in others overpoised by the hinder legs, we have not made experiment. (obsolete) To throw (someone or something) off balance. Synonym: overbalance