Lewis & Short

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prae-pollĕo, ēre, v. n., to exceed or surpass in power, to be very powerful, to be very remarkable or distinguished (perh. not ante-Aug.): quibus additis praepollebat, he had the superiority, Tac. A. 2, 45; 51: Phoenices mari praepollebant, id. ib. 11, 14: puella praepollet pulcritudine, App. M. 6, p. 182, 29.
Hence, praepollens, entis, P. a., very powerful, very distinguished: gens divitiis praepollens, Liv. 1, 57: vir, virtute, id. 5, 34.
Comp.: vis oculorum praepollentior, Aug. Civ. Dei, 22, 29.‡ * praepondĕrātĭo, ōnis, f. [praepondero], preponderance: praeponderatio, ῤοπή, Gloss. Lat. Gr.