preponderate

Etymology

From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).

verb

1. (transitive) To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.
   an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica
2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
   That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield. 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, page 359
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
   The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace. 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State
4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
   […] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates. 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
   Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated. 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161