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Definition of Equipoises
1. equipoise [v] - See also: equipoise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equipoises
Literary usage of Equipoises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanism: Woodrow Wilson's Speeches on the War--why He Made Them and what by Woodrow Wilson, Oliver Marble Gale (1918)
"Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for the equipoises of power.
A DEMOCRATIC PEACE. And there is a deeper thing involved than even equality of ..."
2. A Respiration Calorimeter with Appliances for the Direct Determination of Oxygen by Wilbur Olin Atwater, Francis Gano Benedict (1905)
"The bulk of the weight of the absorbing system is borne by three equipoises, one
of which is shown in figure 33. These three points of support prevent any ..."
3. Commentaries on Law, Embracing Chapters on the Nature, the Source, and the by Francis Wharton (1884)
"Since Blackstone wrote, these equipoises, as stated by him, have been destroyed.
The house of commons is no longer an oligarchy representing constituencies ..."
4. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1914)
"The English Constitution, which we admire as a masterpiece of delicate equipoises
and complicated mechanism, would anywhere but in England be full of ..."
5. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"He has, nevertheless, given us premises from whence the absolute necessity of
such orders and equipoises may be inferred ; he has shown how naturally every ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... such as those controlling the movements of respiration, is in favor of the
view that the activity of such centres depends on delicate equipoises. ..."
7. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power. And there
is a deeper thing involved than even equality of right among organized ..."
8. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1911)
"... no starry heavens, no gravitational equipoises of swinging masses, no
differentiation of individual centers, no canvas for the cosmic artist to spread ..."
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