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 Bacon, Francis

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.

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

The ladder of Masonry, like the equipollent ladders of its kindred institutions, always had seven steps, although in modern times the three principal or upper ones are alone alluded to.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

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