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li⋅brate

  [lahy-breyt]
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–verb (used without object), -brat⋅ed, -brat⋅ing.
1. to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
2. to remain poised or balanced.
Origin:
1615–25; < L lībrātus ptp. of lībrāre. to balance, make level, bring to equilibrium. See Libra, -ate 1
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Librate

Li"brate\ (l[imac]"br[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Librated (l[imac]"br[asl]*t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Librating.] [L. libratus, p. p. of librare to balance, to make even, fr. libra. Cf. Level, Deliberate, Equilibrium.] To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised.

Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. --Clifton.

Librate

Li"brate\, v. t. To poise; to balance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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