Definition of "counterpoised" [counterpoised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of counterpoise. (verb)

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• "When Zeus decides who should die in a battle, he weighs the souls of the warriors in counterpoised scale pans until one outweighs the other."
• "As Bailar and Gornik probed their own data further, they began to discern such forces counterpoised against each other with almost exquisite precision."
• "But that was not what held them counterpoised in this intensity of anger and hostility, so strange to both of them, and causing them both such indignant pain."