Word Meanings - POTENTATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. 1 Tim. vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. Milton.

Related words: (words related to POTENTATE)

• PRINCELESS
  Without a prince. Fuller.
• MONARCHIAN
  One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.
• PRINCEDOM
  The jurisdiction, sovereignty, rank, or estate of a prince. Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce. Milton.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• 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
• CHERUBIC; CHERUBICAL
  Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic. "The cherubic host." Milton.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• MONARCHESS
  A female monarch.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• MONARCHIC; MONARCHICAL
  Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv.
• PRINCEHOOD
  Princeliness. E. Hall.
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• MONARCHIAL
  Monarchic. Burke.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER