Preponderate Definition & Meaning

Origin of Preponderate

Latin praeponderāre praeponderāt- prae- pre- ponderāre to weigh (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh")

From Wiktionary

The great administrator and the bold innovator were united in him in an exceptional degree, and he allowed neither character to preponderate unduly.
They include the biological nature of the organism and its physical environment, the latter involving conditions in which geographical elements, direct or indirect, preponderate.
In the college itself the voting - secret and by ballot throughout - is by majority; and since this majority consists, under the actual system, of very conservative elements (the landowners and urban delegates having 8ths of the votes), the progressive elements - however much they might preponderate in the country - would have no chance of representation at all save for the curious provision that one member at least in each government must be chosen from each of the five classes represented in the college.
It is recommended that frankincense should enter as largely as possible into its composition, and that if inferior materials be employed at all they should not be allowed to preponderate.
Gold is left in the anode slime when copper or silver are refined by the usual processes, but if the gold preponderate in the anode these processes are inapplicable.

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