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Show PO ro 2. Havin great authority or dominion as, porent monarchs Why ftand thefe royal fronts amazed thus Cry havock, kings! ‘back to the ftained field You equal potents PoTENTATE fiery kindled ipirits n. / [potentat, French. fovereign prince Monarch Shakefp Kings and mightieft potentates muft die. . Shak. Thefe defences are but compliments To dally with confining gotentates Daniel All obey'd the fuperior voic Of their great potentate; for great indee His name, and hig was his degree in heav''n. Milz Exaltin him not only above earthly princes an potentates, but abov the highef of th celeftia hierarchy Boyle Each potentate, as wary fear, or ftrength Or emulation urg'd, his neighbour's bound Invades Pore'strav Philips adj [potenciel, Fr. poten tialis, Latin, 1 Exifting in poflibility This potential and imaginary materia prima can not exift without form. Raleigh's Hift. of the World 2. Having the effe& without the externa altual property The magnifico is much belov'd Shakefpeare's Othells The cautery iscitheraGual or potentiale Markbam Ice doth not only fubmit unto atual heat, bu indureth not the potential calidity of many waters Brown 3. Efficacious;. powerful Not in ufe Thou muft make a dullard of the world 1f they not thought the profits of my deat Were very pregnant and pozential fpur To make thee feek it Shakefpeare 4. In grammar, potential is a mood denoting the pofiibility of doing an ¢tion PorenTia'LiTY. 7. [ [from potential. Poflibility ; not attuality Manna reprefented to every man the tafte himfelf did like but it ha in its own potentiality al thofe taftes and difpofitions emirently Taylor God is an eternal fubftance and a&, withou potentiality and matter, the principle of motion the caufe of nature Stilling flect The true notion of a foul's eternity is this, tha the future moments of its duration can never b ail paft and prefent; but fiill there will be a futurity and potentiality of more for ever and ever. Bentl Pore'NTIALLY. adv [from potential. 1. In power or poffibility; not in a& pefitively o This duration of human fouls is only potentially infinite; for their eternity confifts only i an endlefs capacity of continuance without eve ceafing to be in a boundlefs futurity, that ca never be exhaufted, or all of it be paft or prefent but their duration can never be pofitively an attually eternal, becaufe it is moft manifeft, tha no momen ca eve be afligned, wherein it fhal be true, that fuch a foul hath then aCually fuftaine an infinite duration Bentley 2. In efficacy; not in altuality They fhould-tell us out of fcripture whic there fct down, or elf principles and rules o whether only that be take is actually and particularl that alfo which the genera fcripture potentivlly contain Hocker Blacknefs is produced upon the blade of a knif that has cut four apples, if the juice, though bot actually and porentially cold, be not quickly wipe off Beyle on Colours Po'renTLY. adv. [from potent. fully; forcibly Power Metal ar hardene Shakefpeare's Henry VII1 b vinegar Po'renTwEss Powerfulnefs Po'reun. #. / tion ufed fo makes a {fmal Boyle =z [fro potent. might; power [by miftake or corruppopgun. A gun whic fmart noife An author thus who pants for fame Begins the world with fearand fhame ‘When firft in print, you fee him drea Each porgun levell'd at his head. Savift's Mifcellan Porua'~GER. 7. /i [pot and hanger. Hook or branch on which the pot i hung over the fire Po'rHecary. n. /. [contralted by pronunciation and poetical convenienc apothecary ; apothecarius apotheca, Lat. On and fells phyfick wh fro cempound often heatin writte an podder fome times pudder, and is derived by Funiu from foudre, thunder, French; by Skin ner from -peuteren or peteren, Dutch t fhake or dig ; and more probably by fecond thought from poudre, Fr. duft. 1. Buftle; tumult; flutter. A low word Such a potter As if that whatfoever god, who leads him Were crept into his human pow'rs And gave him graceful pofture ~Skak. Coriclanus Some hold the one, and fome the other But howfoe'er they make a pother Hudibras What a porker has been here with Wood and hi brafs ‘Who would modeftly make a few halfpennies pafs Sawift *Tis yet in vain to keep a pothe About one vice, and fall into the other Pope 1 always fpeak well of thee Thou always fpeak'{t ill of me Yet after all our noife and porber The world believes nor one nor t'other 2. Suffocating cloud Thi derivation from poudye Guardian juftifie He {uddenly unties the poke Which from it fent out fuch a fmoke As ready was them all to choke So grievous was the pother th Drayton puzzle He that loves reading and writing, yet finds certain fealons wherein thofe things have no relifh only porbers and wearies himfelf to no purpofe. Locke n. [po herb fit for the pot an herd. A Sir Triftram telling us tobacco was a porherd bid the drawer bring in t'other half pint. ~ Tatler Egypt bafer than the beafts they worthip Below theif potherb gods that grow in gardens. Dry Of alimentary leaves, the olera or potherbs affor an excellent nourithment; amongft thofe are th cole or cabbage kind Leave eate ra are terme whic other Arbuthnot fallad5 if boiled of thofe plants are porberbs in one family, are fallad in anWatts Po'rrook #. /. [pet and hook. Po TION #. / Dryden [potion French . Potio Latin.] A draught; common y' fical draught Pig For taftes in the taking of s head and neck fhake 2 Baronfxo zlfi:::.},"fi' th The earl was by nature of fo indif . fery that he would frz)p in the mid[rlid:}e::;t Ahu}fle Ppotion, and after he had licked hj li spvzl drink off the reft Moft do tafte through fond intemperate thi:{tfi Soon as the po;‘_im works, their huma countenan; Th' exprefs refemblance of the gods, is c ang'd Into fome brutith form of wolf or bear Miltoy Po'rrip. n. /. [pot and lid. of a pot The cqm The columella is a fine, thin, light the bottom of which fpreads ;bofit;a:fing ‘:e the refemblanc houfes of weoden potlid in countr D,erbam A pot this day at Gaza, they couch potfberds veflels of earth in their walls to gather the win from the top, and pafs it in fpouts into rooms Bacon's Natural Hifior] He on the athes fits, his fate deplores And with a potfherd fcrapes the fwelling fores Sandys ‘Whence come broken pot/perds tumbling down, And leaky ware from garret windows thrown ; Well may they break our heads Dryden Po'rrace. n. /. [potage, French; fro pot. Any thing boiled or decofted fo food See PorRIDGE Jacob fod potzage, and Efau came from the fiel faint Genefis For great the man, and ufeful, without doubt Who feafons pottage or expels the gout Whofe {cience keeps life in, and keeps death out. Harte Po'rTER. . f. [potier, Fr. from got.] maker of earthen veflels My thoughts are whirled like a potrer's wheel Shakefp-are Some prefs the plants with fherds of posters clag Drydin A potter will not have any chalk or marl mixe Mortimer's Hu/bandr)' with the clay He like the porter in a mould has caf The world's great frame p Prior An ore, whichfo Po'TTERN-ORE. m. / 7o Po'THer. w. n. To make a blulitering ineffe€tual effort 70 Po'THER @. a. To turmoil; t Po'THERB ormed or ferawled lette s or racters ( , Let me fee her Arabian pothooks ment of a broke Po'ruer. #. /. [This word is of doubl orthography and uncertain etymology it is fometime 1. Hooks to faften pots r kettles wig 2. Ill Porsue'ro. n. [ [por and fhard; fro Jehaerde5 properly potfhard.] A frag Modern *pothecarics, taught the ar By doctors bills to play the do&or's part Bold in the pratice of miftaken rules they become potlerbs: and fom You're potently oppos'd 5 and with a malic Of as great fize heat precedent Bacon Oil of vitriol, though a potently acid menftruum will yet precipitate many bodies mineral, and other diffolved not only in aquafortis, but in fpirit o Prefcribe, apply, and call their matters fools. Pope And hath in his effet a voice gotential As double as the duke's quenching3 for cold worketh moft potently upo fro not in adt PO its aptnefs to vitrify, and ferve the potters to glaze their earthen veflels, th A Boyle miners call poszern-ore Po'rTiNG. . /. [from pot.] - Drinkiag I learnt it in England, where they are moft poSbakq/}fmre_‘x Othello tent in porting Po'rrLE. #. /. [from per. fure containing four pints time ufe Liquid me Itis fome licentiouily for a tankard or pot out of which glaffes are filled He drinks you with facility your Dar'! drunk, ere the next port/e can be fllled- Shakefpeare Roderigo hath to-night carous' Skakefprare Potations pettle deep "The oracle of Apoll Here fpeaks out of his part/ Or the Tripos his tower bottle OTVA'LIANT ad Ben .7 nfot [pot and waliawal nt. k r d n r f p g / u c t w g Heate J ' U L s t e u o [ j a 1. Pretty much in drink 2. Fit to drink Povcu . /. [pocke, French. |