equipollent

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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 James, William

But, since is and exists are equipollent, and so being and existing, is being is the same as the unimpeachable is existing.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly

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 Meredith, George

Hill's eloquence exceeded his judgment; Stephens' judgment was superior to his oratorical power; in Toombs these were equipollent.

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.

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 Bacon, Francis