Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; efficacious; as, a potent medicine. 2. (a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince. 3. (a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument. 4. (n.) A prince; a potentate. 5. (n.) A staff or crutch. 6. (n.) 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.

Multi-Version Concordance Potent (1 Occurrence) Isaiah 47:9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders. (See NIV)