armipotent

comparative more armipotent · superlative most armipotent

1. obsoletePowerful in battle.

   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,)

   1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XIII

plural armipotents

1. archaicpoeticA powerful combatant.

   The two armipotents brought up their respective legions, thirsting for glory.

   1825, Eileen Archer, Saragossa

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   With violence the lands are spread / Even as in Israel's day, / And it repenteth me I bred / Chartered armipotents lust-led / To feuds […]

   1917, Thomas Hardy, I Met a Man