potence
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Any attempt to enfilade his front by passing along the other flank was met by the broadsides of the six or eight ships drawn up en potence to the rear.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
These three brigades formed the command of Major-General Henry; the whole of General Desha's division, consisting of two brigades, were formed en potence upon the left of Trotter.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart
This is the theory of the importance of the individual, raised, so to speak, to its very highest potence.
From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Leslie Stephen
Numerations proceed from potence into act with the first Adam, 795-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Of earth the bold, Where the blind matter wrings An awful potence out of impotence, Bowing the spiritual things To the things of sense.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
