Potent /(?)/

Po·tent

Potent

a.
  1. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
    Moses once more his potent rod extends.
  2. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
    Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors.
  3. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.

Phrases & Compounds
Cross potent
See Illust. (7) of Cross.

Potent

n.
  1. A prince; a potentate. [Obs.]
  2. A staff or crutch. [Obs.]
  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. (Her.)

Phrases & Compounds
Counter potent
a fur differing from potent in the arrangement of the patches.