"ponderize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, The American Flint - Volume 6, page 42",
          "text": "Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it.",
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        "(intransitive, colloquial) To ponder."
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          "ref": "1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Into Afrique, Asia, Indies, page 150",
          "text": "The sheepe are sweete, and fattest in the taile, whose weight oft ponderizes twenty pound, and many times their whole body.",
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          "ref": "1948, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education, A Resource Unit in Home Economics Education",
          "text": "Modern Cryer cabinets are of sturdy, high grade, ponderized steel or some other rust resistant metal finished in enamel, easy to clean and durable.",
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          "ref": "1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, page 68",
          "text": "An overabundance of slow, soulful numbers tends to ponderize the proceedings somewhat, but much of the singing is quite beautiful, and all of it is authentic.",
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        "To make weighty or ponderous."
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        "(transitive, rare) To make weighty or ponderous."
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