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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; efficacious; as, a potent medicine.

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

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

4. (n.) A prince; a potentate.

5. (n.) A staff or crutch.

6. (n.) 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.

Strong's Hebrew

3081. Yehukal -- "the LORD is able," a courtier of King Zedekiah
... Jehucal. From yakol; potent; Jehukal, an Israelite -- Jehucal. Compare Yuwkal. see
HEBREW yakol. see HEBREW Yuwkal. 3080, 3081. Yehukal. 3082 . Strong's Numbers
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7989. shallit -- having mastery, domineering
... governor, mighty, that hath power, ruler. From shalat; potent; concretely, a prince
or warrior -- governor, mighty, that hath power, ruler. see HEBREW shalat. ...
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Library

Touching a Limitless Circle.
... The fragrant life-touch, the musical voice-touch, the warm service-touch,
the potent golden-touch, the secret, subtle prayer-touch. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on service/touching a limitless circle.htm

Elucidation
... 2. "For to this Church, on account of more potent principality, [3795] it is necessary
that every Church (that is, those who are, on every side, faithful ...
//christianbookshelf.org/irenaeus/against heresies/elucidation.htm

The Noble Results of this Species of Prayer
... tendency, or, in other words, is returned through recollection into itself; from
that moment the central attraction becomes a most potent action, infinitely ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/chapter xxi the noble results.htm

Christian Names.
... Much depends upon the name. It exerts a potent influence for good, or for
evil upon the bearer and upon all around him. Primarily ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xii christian names.htm

Our Stronghold
... Towns which would be taken by modern artillery in twelve hours held out for twelve
years against the most potent forces of the ancient times. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/our stronghold.htm

Revision of the Dutch Confession and Heidelberg Catechism
... To the noble and most potent the states of Holland and West Friezland, my Supreme
Governor, my most noble, potent, wise and prudent Lords: ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/revision of the dutch confession.htm

The "Great Archon" of Basilides.
... [827] For, says he, he is more ineffable than ineffable entities, and more potent
than potent ones, and more wise than wise ones, and superior to all the ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xi the great archon of.htm

Whether vice is Worse than a vicious Act?
... Objection 3: Further, a cause is more potent than its effect. ... Therefore a habit
is more potent than its act, both in goodness and in badness. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether vice is worse than.htm

A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord.
... All the world's mass by a word suddenly,. 140 And raise by potent voice all things
from nought,. ... Of potent sound, at once throughout all realms. ...
/.../unknown/fathers of the third century tertullian appendix/4 a strain of the.htm

How Alexandra by Gaining the Good-Will of the Pharisees, Retained ...
... they cut the throat of one of them, Diogenes; and after him they did the same to
several, one after another, till the men that were the most potent came into ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 16 how alexandra by.htm

Thesaurus

Potent (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible;
efficacious; as, a potent medicine. 2. (a.) Having ...
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Empire (8 Occurrences)
... his own aggrandizement. He proved the potent factor of the first triumvirate
(60 BC); his consulship (59) was truly kingly. In 49 ...
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Semites
... (2) Personality of God: Closely related to this high conception of Deity was the
apparently contradictory but really potent idea of the Deity as a personality. ...
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Roman (26 Occurrences)
... his own aggrandizement. He proved the potent factor of the first triumvirate
(60 BC); his consulship (59) was truly kingly. In 49 ...
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Semitic
... (2) Personality of God: Closely related to this high conception of Deity was the
apparently contradictory but really potent idea of the Deity as a personality. ...
/s/semitic.htm - 28k

Virtuous (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. 3. (a.)
Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent. ...
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Logos
... This substance he conceived to be, not water or air as previous thinkers had
conjectured, but something more subtle, mysterious and potent-fire. ...
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Gnosticism
... It is therefore of high importance to gain a right conception of the nature
of this potent anti-Christian influence. This is not easy. ...
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Weak (102 Occurrences)
... sentence; a weak style. 18. (vi) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt
to be prevalent; not potent; feeble. 19. (vi) Lacking in ...
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Impotent (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Not potent; lacking power, strength, or vigor, whether physical, intellectual,
or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm ...
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Bible Concordance

Potent (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 47:9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

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