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Potent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Powerful; physically strong; forcible; efficacious; as a potent medicine.

2. Moses once more his potent rod extends.

3. Powerful, in a moral sense; having great influence; as potent interest; a potent argument.

4. Having great authority, control or dominion; as a potent prince.

Potent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A prince; a potentate. [Not in use.]

2. A walking staff or crutch. [Not used.]

Potent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.

2. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.

3. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.

Potent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A prince; a potentate.

2. A staff or crutch.

3. One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.

Potentacy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sovereignty. [Not used.]

Potentacy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sovereignty.

Potentate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A person who possesses great power or sway; a prince; a sovereign; an emperor, king or monarch.

2. Exalting him not only above earthly princes and potentates, but above the highest of the celestial hierarchy.

Potentate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.

Potential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having power to impress on us the ideas of certain qualities, though the qualities are not inherent in the thing; as potential heat or cold.

2. Existing in possibility, not in act.

3. This potential and imaginary materia prima, cannot exist without form.

4. Efficacious; powerful. [Not in use.]

5. Potential cautery, in medicine, is the consuming or reducing to an eschar, any part of the body by a caustic alkaline or metallic salt, etc. instead of a red hot iron, the use of which is called actual cautery.

6. Potential mode, in grammar, is that form of the verb which is used to express the power, possibility, liberty or necessity of an action or of being; as, I may go; he can write. This, in English, is not strictly a distinct mode, but the indicative or declarative mode, affirming the power to act, instead of the act itself. I may go or can go, are equivalent to, I have power to go.

Potential [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Any thing that may be possible.

Potential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.

2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

Potential [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.

2. In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.

3. The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.

Potentiality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Possibility; not actuality.

Potentiality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

Potentially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In possibility; not in act; not positively.

2. This duration of human souls is only potentially infinite.

3. In efficacy, not in actuality; as potentially cold.

Potentially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. With power; potently.

2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.

Potentiate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To render active or potent.

Potentiated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Potentiating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Potentiometer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.

Potentize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To render the latent power of (anything) available.

Potentized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Potentizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Potently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Powerfully; with great force or energy.

2. You are potently opposed.

Potently [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.

Potentness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Powerfulness; strength; might. [Little used.]

Potentness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.