Word Meanings - ARMIPOTENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Powerful in arms; mighty in battle. The temple stood of Mars armipotent. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to ARMIPOTENT)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• TEMPLED
  Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
• MIGHTY
  1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
• STOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Stand.
• ARMIPOTENT
  Powerful in arms; mighty in battle. The temple stood of Mars armipotent. Dryden.
• BATTLEDOOR
  A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1.
• BATTLED
  Embattled. Tennyson.
• BATTLEMENT
  fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature,
• TEMPLET
  A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. (more info) 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be
• BATTLEMENTED
  Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.
• BATTLE SHIP
  An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.
• BATTLE-AX; BATTLE-AXE
  A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
• TEMPLE
  A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
• BATTLE RANGE
  The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• ENBATTLED
  Embattled.
• STEMPLE
  A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
• BATTELER; BATTLER
  A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.
• OVERBATTLE
  Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.
• EMBATTLE
  To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the
• UNPOWERFUL
  Not powerful; weak. Cowley.
• ALMIGHTY
  1. Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible. I am the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1. 2. Great; extreme; terrible. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. The Almighty, the omnipotent
• EMBATTLED
  Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. 3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie. (more info) 1. Having indentations like a battlement. Chaucer.