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Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. [Obs.] "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak.

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

With power; potently. [Obs.]

To render active or potent. Coleridge.

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

To render the latent power of (anything) available. Dunglison.

With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously. "You are potently opposed." Shak.

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

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet.

Preëxistence. [Obs.]

Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preëxistent state. Pope.

The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies. Emerson.

One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Prémontré, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Characterized by prepotency. Darwin.

See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.

claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden.

A pretender; a claimant.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.