A weight that balances another weight.
Constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to.
1 The specific gravity is then found as follows: First, counterpoise the counterweight.
2 It accounted for her having detractors; a heavy counterpoise to her enthusiastic friends.
3 Parliament looked to him as the only possible counterpoise to Lambert.
4 No effective counterpoise to his power was apparent within the Empire.
5 But God has given it a terrestrial body to serve for a counterpoise .
6 He knew that activity, and not despondency, is the true counterpoise to misfortune.
7 Parties were burning to measure their strength free from any counterpoise .
8 These monkeys raised in the scale were a counterpoise to men brutalized and bestialized.
9 On pulling this, the counterpoise falls and the shaft flies upwards drawing the sling.
10 But these found a powerful counterpoise in the political relations.
11 The plate chain which carries the large western counterpoise broke.
12 It entered the scale against royalty, and was its counterpoise .
13 And that is the perfect counterpoise to the ontological argument.
14 By way of counterpoise , there were admirable surprises in man.
15 Every power that has no counterpoise , no autocratic control, leads to abuses and folly.
16 Here was a counterpoise to my Romans, still more forcible than the little garden.
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