outpoise

English

Etymology

Verb

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

(archaic, transitive) To outweigh.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Captain Tho. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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