They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Zech. xi. 12.
5. To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to
consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to
a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
A young man not weighed in state affairs.
Bacon.
Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own.
Milton.
Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.
Hooker.
In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs.
Pope.
Without sufficiently weighing his expressions.
Sir W. Scott.
6. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. [Obs. or Archaic] "I
weigh not you." Shak.
All that she so dear did weigh.
Spenser.
To weigh down. (a) To overbalance. (b) To oppress with weight; to
overburden; to depress. "To weigh thy spirits down." Milton.
Weigh (?), v. i. 1. To have weight; to be heavy. "They only weigh the
heavier." Cowper.
2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual
balance.
Your vows to her and me . . . will even weigh.
Shak.
This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for
much talk and little knowledge.
Locke.