单词 | prepollent |
释义 | prepollentadj. Having superior power, weight, or influence; predominant, prevailing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [adjective] preponderanta1500 predominant1575 predominate1591 ascendant1634 prepollent1657 preponderate1789 predominated1800 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iv, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. R4v Now the basis is..more prepollent [L. praepolet] in quality than in quantity. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature v. 146 The præpollent gravity of some [bodies], sufficing to give others a comparative or respective lightness. 1752 Gentleman's Mag. 154 Other evidence..such as has been always deemed prepollent to any other. 1825 R. P. Ward Tremaine III. xiii. 239 The question..whether the evil or good is præpollent. 1847 Littell's Living Age 11 Sept. 498/2 We rather suspect that the Bible contains pervasive principles, prepollent and overmastering truths. 1901 Dublin Rev. Apr. 293 It had nowhere any current or prepollent vogue. 1949 Italica 26 39 His frankest and most unabashed bid for political power is a satire addressed to..the chief of the temporarily prepollent faction in Bologna. 1993 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 87 220/1 The Structure of Corporate Political Action synthesizes some of the most prepollent questions in the social sciences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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