equipollent
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Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Nor is aught of an equipollent conflict seen, nor the weaker's flashed device; Headless is offered a breast to beaks deliberate, formal, assured, precise.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
And then said a Clerk to me, "Is not the Word of GOD, and GOD Himself equipollent, that is, of one authority?"
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
At first, ‘spirit and matter,’ ‘soul and body,’ stood for a pair of equipollent substances quite on a par in weight and interest.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
What appealed only too powerfully to Chinese superstition was the use of spells, charms and magical formulæ and the doctrine that since the universe is merely idea, thoughts and facts are equipollent.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
