Equipoise

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equipoise¹

  • /ˈɛkwɪpɔɪz/

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Proto-Italic *aikʷos?

Old Latin aiquos

Latin aequus

Latin aequi-der.

English equi-

English poise

English equipoise

From equi- + poise.

noun equipoises · æquipoise

  1. countable, uncountable A state of balance; equilibrium. Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
  2. countable, uncountable A counterbalance. Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.

verb equipoises · equipoising · equipoised · æquipoise

  1. transitive To act or make to act as an equipoise.
  2. transitive To cause to be or stay in equipoise.

Equipoise²

proper noun

  1. Market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.

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