prepollent
English
Etymology
Latin praepollens, past participle of praepollere (“to surpass in power”).
Adjective
prepollent
- Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
- Robert Boyle , A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature.
- But the prepollent Gravity of some, being sufficient to give comparative Lightness or Gravity to Bodies, we must deny Nature this Prerogative.
- Robert Boyle , A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature.
Noun
prepollent (plural prepollents)
References
- prepollent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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