a. [ad. L. armipotent-em, f. arma arms + potens, -tentem powerful.] Mighty in arms: originally an epithet of Mars.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1124. Ther stood the tempul of Marz armypotent.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. xiv. 83. And of Achillis armypotent ofspring.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, III. lxx. Our God the Lord Armipotent.
c. 1717. Parnell, Poet. Wks. (1833), 46. ’Twas thus the’ armipotent advised the gods.
1827. Hare, Guesses, Ser. I. (1873), 86. So ought England … to plant … English manliness, English freedom … wherever the simple natives bow to her armipotent sceptre.
