prepollent

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praepollens, past participle of praepollere (“to surpass in power”).

Adjective

prepollent

1. Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert Boyle, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature

     But the prepollent Gravity of some, being sufficient to give comparative Lightness or Gravity to Bodies, we must deny Nature this Prerogative.

Noun

prepollent (plural prepollents)

1. An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.

References

• “prepollent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• propellent