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Power

POW'ER, n. [The Latin has posse, possum, potes, potentia. The primary sense of the verb is to strain, to exert force.]
1. In a philosophical sense, the faculty of doing or performing any thing; the faculty of moving or of producing a change in something; ability or strength. A man raises his hand by his own power, or by power moves another body. The exertion of power proceeds from the will, and in strictness, no being destitute of will or intelligence, can exert power. Power in man is active or speculative. Active power is that which moves the body; speculative power is that by which we see, judge, remember, or in general, by which we think.
Power may exist without exertion. We have power to speak when we are silent.
Power has been distinguished also into active and passive,the power of doing or moving, and the power of receiving impressions or of suffering. In strictness, passive power is an absurdity in terms. To say that gold has a power to be melted,is improper language,yet for want of a more appropriate word, power is often used in a passive sense, and is considered as two-fold; viz.as able to make or able to receive any change.
2. Force; animal strength; as the power of the arm, exerted in lifting, throwing or holding.
3. Force; strength; energy; as the power of the mind, of the imagination, of the fancy. He has not powers of genius adequate to the work.
4. Faculty of the mind, as manifested by a particular mode of operation; as the power of thinking, comparing and judging; the reasoning powers.
5. Ability, natural or moral. We say, a man has the power of doing good; his property gives him the power of relieving the distressed; or he has the power to persuade others to do good; or it is not in his power to pay his debts. The moral power of man is also his power of judging or discerning in moral subjects.
6. In mechanics, that which produces motion or force, or which may be applied to produce it. Thus the inclined plane is called a mechanical power, as it produces motion, although this in reality depends on gravity. The wheel and axle, and the lever, are mechanical powers, as they may be applied to produce force. These powers are also called forces, and they are of two kinds, moving power, and sustaining power.
7. Force. The great power of the screw is of extensive use in compression. The power of steam is immense.
8. That quality in any natural body which produces a change or makes an impression on another body; as the power of medicine; the power of heat; the power of sound.
9. Force; strength; momentum; as the power of the wind, which propels a ship or overturns a building.
10. Influence; that which may move the mind; as the power of arguments or of persuasion.
11. Command; the right of governing, or actual government; dominion; rule, sway; authority. A large portion of Asia is under the power of the Russian emperor. The power of the British monarch is limited by law. The powers of government are legislative, executive, judicial, and ministerial.
Power is no blessing in itself, but when it is employed to protect the innocent.
Under this sense may be comprehended civil, political, ecclesiastical, and military power.
12. A sovereign, whether emperor, king or governing prince or the legislature of a state; as the powers of Europe; the great powers; the smaller powers. In this sense, the state or nation governed seems to be included in the word power. Great Britain is a great naval power.
13. One invested with authority; a ruler; a civil magistrate. Rom 13.
14. Divinity; a celestial or invisible being or agent supposed to have dominion over some part of creation; as celestial powers; the powers of darkness.
15. That which has physical power; an army; a navy; a host; a military force.
Never such a power--
Was levied in the body of a land.
16. Legal authority; warrant; as a power of attorney; an agent invested with ample power. The envoy has full powers to negotiate a treaty.
17. In arithmetic and algebra, the product arising from the multiplication of a number or quantity into itself; as, a cube is the third power; the biquadrate is the fourth power.
18. In Scripture, right; privilege. John 1. 1 Cor 9.
19. Angels, good or bad. Col 1. Eph 6.
20. Violence, force; compulsion. Ezek 4.
21. Christ is called the power of God, as through him and his gospel, God displays his power and authority in ransoming and saving sinners. 1 Cor 1.
22. The powers of heaven may denote the celestial luminaries. Mat 24.
23. Satan is said to have the power of death, as he introduced sin, the cause of death, temporal and eternal, and torments men with the feat of death and future misery.
24. In vulgar language, a large quantity; a great number; as a power of good things. [This is, I believe, obsolete, even among our common people.]
Power of attorney, authority given to a person to act for another.
power appears in definitions for these words:
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Assume Astringency At Atony Attorney Attractic Attractile Attraction Attractively Attribute Auditive Auditory Augmentative August Authority Authorization Authorize Authorized Authorizing Autocrasy Autocrat Autocrator Automatic Automatous Autonomy Available Availableness Availably Awless Bairn Balance Barrenness Basilar Bear Beatific Before Believe Belligerent Bellipotent Best Bewitch Bewitchery Bewitching Bewitchment Beyond Biarmian Bice Bimedial Bind Bipinnatifid Biquadratic Blacksmith Blanchimeter Blockade Blunt Boundless Breach Breast Breath Burning But Cachexy Caduceus Calif Calmer Calorimotor Camel Camphor Can Candidate Capable Capableness Capaciousness Capacitate Capacity Capstan Captainry Captivating Captivity Castor Causality Cause Censor Censorial Central Chancellor Chaos Charm Charmer Charmingness Charter Chartered Cheerly Chivalry Choice Choiceless Choky Choose Chooser Chorepis-copal Church-authority Church-warden Chylifactive Chylopoetic Circular Circumstantiate Citatory Civil Claim Clear Cloggy Clothe Cloud-dispelling Club Clutches Co-operate Co-operation Co-ordination Coactive Coagulative Cobelligerent Codling Coefficiency Coequal Coequality Coercive Cogency Cogent Cogently Cogitative Cognitive Cognoscitive Cohesive Collect College Colliquant Combine Comicalness Command Commandment Commandning Commissary Commission Commit Common Comparative Compass Compatibility Competent Complete Compound Comprehension Comprehensive Compressive Compulsive Compulsory Con Conceit Conceivable Conception Concession Conciliate Conclusiveness Concoctive Concretive Concur Concurrence Concussive Condensative Condition Conducible Confessor Confine Confirmative Conglutinative Conglutinatore Conjurer Connective Connexive Conquer Conscience Conscious Consent Conservant Conservative Conspiring Constable Constablewick Constitution Constitutionality Constitutive Constrain Constrained Constraining Constraint Constraintive Constriction Consular Contemplative Contemptible Content Contentious Continental Continuer Contractile Contribute Contribution Contributive Controll Controller Controlment Convene Convictive Convincingness Cope Corporation Corrective Corroborant Corrodent Corrosive Corrosively Corrugant Could Counterbalance Counterbalanced Counterbalancing Countercharm Counterpoise Counterpoised Counterpoising Countervail Countervailed County Coverture Craniology Creative Credentials Credible Credit Crescent Cripple Critical Crown Crowned Crowning Crucify Crucifying Crusade Crush Crushed Cultivate Cupidity Cure Daring Darkness Dawn Dawning Dazzlement Dead Deaden Deadness Deaf Deafen Debate Debt Deceptive Decisive Decisiveness Declare Decoy Decrease Deed Deep Defiance Defy Deglutition Deiform Dejectory Delegate Deliberative Deliver Demand Demiurgic Democracy Demoniac Demonocracy Demonstrative Demoralize Denotative Deobstruent Dependence Dependent Depilatory Deputation Deputy Deranging Derive Descensive Desiccative Despot Despotic Despotically Despotism 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Fool Forbear Forbearance Force Forceful Forcible Forcibly Foreclose Formal Formative Fortuitous Fortunate Fortune Found Frankchase Freedom Freewill Friendly Frigid Frosty Fugitive Function Fundamentally Gate Generant Generative Genial Genius Giant Giddiness Giddy Gift Gifted Gifting Gin Gipsey Give Government Grand Grasp Great Greatness Greenbroom Hand Handfast Handiwork Hant Hard Hartshorn Have Having Hazard Head Heart Heaven Heaven-directed Hedgehog Hell Hell-confounding Helpless Herculean Herself High Highness Hight Hitherward Hold Holding Honor Horn Hostage Humbird Humective Humorous Hydrodynamic Hypocrite Idio-repulisve Idiot Ignipotent Illuminative Imagination Immeability Immediacy Immensity Impassably Impassionate Impatronize Impelled Impellent Impercipient Imperial Imperiality Imperious Implead Impotence Impotent Impotently Impracticability Impracticableness Impressive Impressively Impulsive Inability Inactive Inadequate Incapability Incapableness Incapacitate Incapacity Incense Incentive Incogitancy Incogitative Incompetence Incompetent Incrassative Incubus Incurable Indelible Independence Index Indissolubly Indivinity Indult Industriously Ineffectualness Inefficacious Inefficaciousness Inefficacy Inefficiency Inelasticity Inequality Inert Inertness Infatuate Infatuation Infinity Inflective Influence Influential Influx Inform Informative Infusive Ingenerate Ingenuity Ingress Innovate Inquisitorial Insensibility Insensible Insentient Insinuant Insinuation Insipid Insipidness Insolent Inspiration Instimulating Instinct Instincted Institutive Insufficiency Insufficient Intellective Intellectual Intellectuality Intemperance Intension Interdictive Interpretation Intervention Intolerant Intrench Intuitive Invention Investigate Invision Involution Involve Iron Irrationality Irrepealably Irresistibleness Irresistibly Jade Judge Judgment Judicative Judicature Juggle Jurisdiction Justificative Keep Key King Kingdom Knowledge Labor Laboring Lacerative Languid 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Possession Possessioner Possessor Possibility Possible Possibly Postliminium Potassium Potency Potent Potentate Potential Potently Potentness Power Powerful Powerfully Powerfulness Powerless Practicability Praemunire Pragmatic Pre-eminence Pre-eminent Predominance Pregnancy Preparative Prepollence Prepollent Preponderance Preponderate Prepossessing Prepotency Prepotent Preservative Preservatory President Press Pressure Pretense Preternatural Pretorian Prevail Prevailing Prevalent Prevalently Priestcraft Prince Princedom Principality Prison Privilege Proconsular Procreative Procreativeness Producibility Productive Prolation Propitiatory Prostration Protest Prove Providence Provoking Publish Puissance Puissant Puissantly Pulley Pungency Punishment Puny Purchase Purgative Purificative Purpose Purse Pursuit Purview Put Quadratic Qualification Qualified Qualify Qualifying Quality Quarter Quinia Quintessence Quiz Radix Raise Rationality Ray Reach React Reaction Rebound Recall Receive Recollection Recollective Recorder Redeem Redemption Reduction Reductive Refractive Regal Regard Regeneratory Regent Regentship Regnant Regress Reign Reigning Religion Relish Remain Remembrance Repeal Repealable Repercussive Repleader Representative Representatively Repressive Republic Repulsion Repulsive Requisition Rescissory Resistance Resistive Resolutive Resolvent Resort Restorative Restringency Retention Retentive Revive Revulsive Rhetoric Riches Rick Right Risible Rising Robbins Rod Rosicrucian Rouse Rousing Rove Royal Rule Ruler Rumination Run Runner Rust Sacrifice Safe Sage Sale Sanative Sanativeness Sanhedrim Sapid Sapor Saporific Satisfaction Satisfactoriness Save Scent Scepter Screw Seapoy Second Second-sight Second-sighted Secular See Seem Seigneurial Seigniory Self-abuse Self-activity Self-begotten Self-communicative Self-confidence Self-confident Self-confiding Self-determination Self-determining Self-diffusive Self-healing Self-imparting Self-kindled Self-motion Self-moved Self-moving Self-repellency Self-repelling Self-restrained Self-subdued Selfishly Sell Seminality Sense Sensorial Sepoy Septical Set Severity Shadow Shallowness Sharpness Shortness Shoulder Shrink Significancy Simony Sinapism Sink Siren Slack Slave Slavery Sleep Sluggish Sluggishness Smallness Soc Solecism Solvent Son Sorcery Soul Source Sovereign Sovereignly Spare Speakable Specht Specuation Spell Spirit Spright Spring Springiness Springy Spry Spur Stale Standard Standing Star Starve State Statute Steam Sterility Sterilize Stimulus Stipulation Strangeness Strength Strengthen Strengthener Strengthless Stretch Striving Stroke Strong Strong-hand Strongly Suasive Subdue Subduing Subject Subjection Subjugate Subjugating Subjugation Submission Submissive Submit Subordinate Subsidize Substantialness Substitute Subtractive Subversion Succession Succumb Succussion Sufficiency Sufficient Superintend Superintendent Superior Supernatural Supernaturalness Supersede Supersedeas Superstition Supervene Supremacy Supreme Surrender Surrendered Surrendering Sursolid Suspense Suspension Suveran Suveranty Swage Sway Sweat Swing Swoon Sword Syllogism Syndic Take Tanist Task Taste Tasteless Temperative Temporal Testamentation Tetradynamian The Theocracy Theurgic Theurgy Thine Thorough-fare Throne Throw Time-server Time-serving Tingent Tire Toil Tolerance Toleration Tongue-shaped Tongue-tied Tongued Tooth Tormentil Torpedo Torpid Torpor Touch Township Trace Transforming Transitive Traverse Treason Treasurer Treaty Treaty-making Tribunician Tributary Triumph Triumvir Trochilic Tropic-bird Trump Tung Tyrannic Tyrannically Tyrannize Tyranny Umpirage Unable Unallied Unattainableness Unavailable Unbalanced Unbias Unbounded Uncharm Unconstitutionalit Uncontentingness Uncontrollably Uncontrolled Undelegated Underlet Undiscerning Unexpressive Unfitness Union Unite Unitive Unmerciful Unmercifulness Unmighty Unmoving Unobtainable Unrestrained Unruled Unsearchableness Unseeing Untransferable Uppermost Upstart Use Useful Usurp Usurpation Usurper Usurping Utmost Utterly Valid Value Vassaled Vegetable Vegetative Verification Verify Verticity Vesicatory Vest Vicar-general Vicariate Vicarious Vicegerency Vicegerent Victory Vie View Vigorous Vigorousness Vindicate Violin Virility Virtual Virtue Virtuous Vishnu Visitorial Visive Visne Vital Vitality Vivacious Vivaciousness Vivacity Volatile Volition Volitive Volume Voluntary Vomition Wake Want War Warrant Water Way Weak Wedge Weight Weightily Weightiness Wheel Wield Wielding Will Win Wind Wing Wise Wit Witchcraft Withstander Wold Worm Wound Wrest Written

 

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