outpoise

English

Etymology

out- +‎ poise

Verb

outpoise (third-person singular simple present outpoises, present participle outpoising, simple past and past participle outpoised)

1. (archaic, transitive) To outweigh.
   • 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:

     if your parts of virtue, and your infirmities were caſt into a balance, I know the first would much out-poise the other

References

“outpoise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.