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RECENT POSTSequiponderant
ee-kwuh-PAWN-duh-rant
noun
equal in weight
1816Headlong Hall'Your theory,' said Mr Jenkison, 'forms an admirable counterpoise to your example. As far as I am attracted by the one, I am repelled by the other. Thus, the scales of my philosophical balance remain eternally equiponderant, and I see no reason to say of either of them, oichetai eis aidao.'1847The Natural History of WiltshireDame Julian Barnes, in her book of Hunting and Hawking, says that the hawk's bells must be in proportion to the hawk, and they are to be equiponderant, otherwise they will give the hawk an unequall ballast: and as to their sound they are to differ by a semitone, which will make them heard better than if they were unisons.Labels: John Aubrey, Thomas Love Peacock
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