Crossword-Solution: LIBRATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Librate | v. i. | To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. |
| Librate | v. t. | To poise; to balance. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LIBRATE | anagram | ALBERTI, TABLIER, TRIABLE |
We have 9 clues for the answer “LIBRATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BE poised | 1 answer |
| OSCILLATE like balance-beam | 1 answer |
| Oscillate, as the beam of a scale. | 1 answer |
| To stay poised | 1 answer |
| vibrate before coming to a total rest | 1 answer |
| Pulsate | 28 answers |
| oscillate | 36 answers |
| Alternate | 51 answers |
| BALANCE ___ | 83 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with LIBRATE (5)
The child then drops upon the ground, and the neighbouring objects seem to continue for some seconds of time to circulate around him, and the earth under him appears to librate like a balance.
Those, who have been upon the water in a boat or ship so long, that they have acquired the necessary habits of motion upon that unstable element, at their return on land frequently think in their reveries, or between sleeping and waking, that they observe the room, they sit in, or some of its furniture, to librate like the motion of the vessel.
When any one turns round rapidly on one foot, till he becomes dizzy, and falls upon the ground, the spectra of the ambient objects continue to present themselves in rotation, or appear to librate, and he seems to behold them for some time still in motion.
Sed vos, O juvenes, sanguis quibus integer aevi, Spes ventura domus, Grantaeque novissima proles, Antiquum revocate decus, revocate triumphos! Continuo Palinurus ubi 'iam pergite' dixit Erectum librate caput; nec pandere crura Parcite, nec solidis firmi considere transtris! Ast ubi contactas iam palmula senserit undas, Compressa incipiat iam tum mihi crura phaselus Accipere, et faciles iter accelerare per undas.
Whence the objects appear to librate or circulate according to the motions of our heads, which is called dizziness; and we lose the means of balancing ourselves, or preserving our perpendicularity, by vision.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2017).