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[ee'-kwah-POL-ahnt, ek'-wah-POL-ahnt] 
(adjective)
1. having equal power or force: "Beauty and fuel efficiency are equipollent in Brian's search for the perfect car."
2. (as in logic) having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently
(noun)
3. an equivalent
additional noun form: equipollence
adverb form: equipollently
Origin:
Approximately 1400; from Middle English; from Old French; from Latin, 'aequipollens,' 'aequipollent-' ('aequi-': equi- + 'pollens,' present participle of 'pollere': to be powerful, to be able). In action:
"When you adapt a book for television -- or translate any work from one art-form to another -- the best way to start is by tearing up the original. But the key concepts of the book also animate the series. When Jeremy Isaacs read Millennium he realised that a vivid pictorial imagination could survive transmission to the screen. CNN's Ted Turner, who relished the global reach and the multicultural message, contributed an essential feature of the structure: each programme is about a century -- shattering a tiresome traditional prejudice. The twentieth century is equipollent with the rest -- 'recent' history equal with remote. No more telling single blow could have been struck for the Galactic museum-keeper perspective."
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. "Television's Millennium - creation and production of the television program 'Millennium,'" History Today (December 1999).
"'The women doubtless would be largely spared'!--But I thank the Professor for teaching me that phrase, because it tries to convey just what I am driving at. The Jutes, Angles, Saxons, did not extirpate the Britons, whatever you may hold concerning the Romans. For, once again, men do not behave in that way, and certainly will not when a live slave is worth money. Secondly, the very horror with which men spoke, centuries after, of Anderida quite plainly indicates that such a wholesale massacre was exceptional, monstrous. If not exceptional, monstrous, why should this particular slaughter have lingered so ineffaceably in their memories? Finally,--and to be as curt as the question deserves--the Celtic Briton in the island was not exterminated and never came near to being exterminated: but on the contrary, remains equipollent with the Saxon in our blood, and perhaps equipollent with that mysterious race we call Iberian, which came before either and endures in this island to-day, as anyone travelling it with eyes in his head can see. Pict, Dane, Norman, Frisian, Huguenot French--these and others come in. If mixture of blood be a shame, we have purchased at the price of that shame the glory of catholicism; and I know of nothing more false in science or more actively poisonous in politics or in the arts than the assumption that we belong as a race to the Teutonic family."
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch�(1863-1944).�"IX.��On the Lineage of English Literature (II),"�On the Art of Writing�(1916).
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