armipotent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin armipotēns.
Adjective[edit]
armipotent (comparative more armipotent, superlative most armipotent)
- (obsolete) Powerful in battle.
- 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XIII:
- Swift at the word bold Merion snatch’d a spear
And, breathing slaughter, follow’d to the war.
So Mars armipotent invades the plain,
(The wide destroyer of the race of man,)
Translations[edit]
powerful in battle
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Noun[edit]
armipotent (plural armipotents)
- (poetic, archaic) A powerful combatant.
- 1825, Eileen Archer, Saragossa:
- The two armipotents brought up their respective legions, thirsting for glory.
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, I Met a Man:
- With violence the lands are spread / Even as in Israel's day, / And it repenteth me I bred / Chartered armipotents lust-led / To feuds […]