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ponderation|pɒndəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. ponderātiōnem, n. of action f. ponderāre: see ponder v. So F. pondération (1519 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Weighing; balancing; adjustment of weight. Also fig.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 196 Upon an immediate ponderation, we could discover no sensible difference in weight. 1658― Hydriot. ii. (1736) 26 The common Fraud of selling Ashes by Measure and not by Ponderation. 1706Art of Paint. (1744) 28 In the Attitudes, the Ponderation and the Contrast are founded in nature. a1735Arbuthnot (J.), The quantity of perspired matter, found by ponderation. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 408 The ponderation of air, the fixation of mercury. 1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 608 A juster ponderation of property would increase its value by promoting its stability. 1866Mill in Edin. Rev. CXXIII. 303 After a comparison and ponderation of evidence. 1875Poste Gaius iv. Comm. (ed. 2) 538 The numeration, ponderation, or mensuration of the principal.
2. Mental weighing (of the importance of a matter); grave consideration or meditation; pondering. Now rare or Obs.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lvi. 43 Weing this thing in ponderashin, In hering of him what equaltie ye show. 1604T. Wright Passions vi. 346 Most of those meanes..require a certaine meditation and ponderation. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 12 The consideration and ponderation of which..maketh mee not so promptly to approve [etc.]. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 110 Your nicest ponderation ought to be imploy'd.
†3. Gravitation. Obs. rare.
1661Boyle Examen (1682) 95 Ponderation is an endeavour every way by right lines into the centre of the earth.
4. The fact of weighing more; preponderance.
1873F. Hall Mod. Eng. 35 It is not the ponderation of personal evidence for or against a word that should accredit or discredit it.
†5. Something that adds weight. Obs.
1609E. Hoby Let. to T. Higgins 74 Who with a Catalogue of great names, with Ponderations, and Considerations thinke to beard the truth. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy iii. xiii, Because his heart told him how light these proofes were, he layes in the scales with them certaine graue ponderations. |