meaning of potent
1. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
2. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
3. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
4. A prince; a potentate.
5. A staff or crutch.
6. One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
7. having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of
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