We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
potent (s.xivm)
Cite this entry

potent (s.xivm)

Cite this entry
 
  FEW:  potens 9,252b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  potent (*)  DMF:  potent  TLF: ∅ OED:  potent n.1 and a.2  MED:  potent a. 1 and n.  DMLBS:  posse (potens) 2359b

a.

able, physically strong: 
( 1477-78 )  [...] qe chacune persone potent et able en corps useroit son arke par cause qe la defence de cest terre estoise meult par archers  Stats ii 462
croiz potente
herald.cross potent, depiction of a cross with T-shaped arms (resembling the head of a crutch): 
( s.xivm; MS: s.xivex )  Le Roy de Jesuralem [sic] porte l’escu d’argent […] a une croise potente d’or  Dean Tract 80

[gdw]

See also:

poable  poance  poant  poantment  podestat  poer1  poer2  poeros  poeste  poesté  poestif  poestivement  possible  possiblement  possibleté  potence  potestat  potestatem  pouaille  pussablement  pussance  pussant  pussantment  pussaument 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
potent