potence

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Thus I shall venture to use potence, in order to express a specific degree of a power, in imitation of the Algebraists.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The three brigades on the right flank will be faced to the left and marched forward; the head of this column still forming en potence with the front line.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

Corona, Crown, contained in potence the ten numerations, 754-l.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Then suddenly it waked, for the moon was sinking, and the charm had lost its potence.

From My Friend the Chauffeur by Lowenheim, Frederic

To true divinities such power some grant; And power to compass more;—to Bacchus none Such potence own.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.