prepollent
English
editEtymology
editLatin praepollens, past participle of praepollere (“to surpass in power”).
Adjective
editprepollent
- Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
- 1686, 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.
Noun
editprepollent (plural prepollents)
References
edit- “prepollent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.