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In an omnipotent manner.

Too potent or powerful.

Strong of wing; strong on the wing. [Poetic] Davies (Holy Roode).

Possessing full power. [R.] Milton.

Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant. Plaifere.

d in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable. [Obs.] Being not of ripe years, not viripotent. Holinshed.

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1.

(as a hot iron) which cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so effected. -- Potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced by such substance.

gn affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.

Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation. Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council called by night. Milton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consis…

orce. The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent. Bacon.

hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.

To raise; to exalt. [R.] By the potent sun elated high. Thomson.

lectric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential.

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.