antilibration

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ libration

Noun

antilibration (countable and uncountable, plural antilibrations)

1. (rare) A balancing; equipoise.
   • 1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone

Related terms

• Libra

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antilibration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)