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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
omnipotent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Big, omnipotent, unpredictable, undependable and cruel.
▪ But any notion of a central planning authority, with if not exactly omnipotent powers over other government departments, soon foundered.
▪ Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or omniscient, either.
▪ Police culture is omnipotent is structuring such views of critical research.
▪ The Lugbara also believe in a single omnipotent deity as the ultimate creator of life and the dispenser of death.
▪ The man reassuring him is, or has the authority of, the omniscient and omnipotent novelist.
▪ We had built a giant and omnipotent mortgage department; then we let half of it leave and fired the rest.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Omnipotent

Omnipotent \Om*nip"o*tent\, a. [F., fr.L. omnipotens, -entis; omnis all + potens powerful, potent. See Potent.]

  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent.

    God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power.
    --Sir T. More.

  2. Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as, omnipotent love.
    --Shak.

    The Omnipotent, The Almighty; God.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
omnipotent

early 14c., from Old French omnipotent "almighty, all-powerful" (11c.) or directly from Latin omnipotentem (nominative omnipotens) "all-powerful, almighty," from omnis "all" (see omni-) + potens (genitive potentis) "powerful" (see potent). Strictly only of God or a deity; general sense of "having absolute power or authority" is attested from 1590s.

Wiktionary
omnipotent

a. 1 Having unlimited power, force or authority. 2 (context biology English) Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell). See also pluripotent.

WordNet
omnipotent

adj. having unlimited power [syn: almighty, all-powerful]

Usage examples of "omnipotent".

The self-sufficing, the omnipotent, The merciful, and the avenging God!

A nursery screamer where dialectics ruled: Mannerless, graceless, laughterless, unlike Herself in all, yet with such power to strike, That she the various features she could scan Dared not to sum, though seeing: and befooled By power which beamed omnipotent, she bowed, Subservient as roused echo round his guns.

Thou seest me enraptured and attracted toward Thy glorious kingdom, enkindled with the fire of Thy love amongst mankind, a herald of Thy kingdom in these vast and spacious lands, severed from aught else save Thee, relying on Thee, abandoning rest and comfort, remote from my native home, a wanderer in these regions, a stranger fallen upon the ground, humble before Thine exalted Threshold, submissive toward the heaven of Thine omnipotent glory, supplicating Thee in the dead of night and at the break of dawn, entreating and invoking Thee at morn and at eventide to graciously aid me to serve Thy Cause, to spread abroad Thy Teachings and to exalt Thy Word throughout the East and the West.

And although our Omnipotent Enemy sent his own Son to die for them, I, by my pleasing guile, gain ten for every one He gains through his crucified Son.

A republic of gods of such opposite tempers and interests required, in every system, the moderating hand of a supreme magistrate, who, by the progress of knowledge and flattery, was gradually invested with the sublime perfections of an Eternal Parent, and an Omnipotent Monarch.

Thus we are no longer permitted to place the seat of the living actions in the extreme vessels, which are only the carriers from which each part takes what it wants by the divine right of the omnipotent nucleated cell.

Our Pen of Glory We have, at the bidding of the Omnipotent Ordainer, breathed a new life into every human frame, and instilled into every word a fresh potency.

Some reify the fundamental laws of physics so far as to attribute qualities to them that are traditionally ascribed only to God, claiming that they are universal, absolute, omnipotent, and eternal, existing independently even of the state of the universe.

Professor Nejedly, who late in his life, in 1948, became minister and omnipotent ruler of culture in Stalinized Czechoslovakia, took with him into his bellicose senility only two great passions: Smetana worship and Janacek vilification.

Thou art the Confirmer of whomsoever Thou willest in that which Thou desirest, and, verily, Thou art the All-Powerful, the Omnipotent.

Never mind getting prostrate and making good with the big apology: if there turned out to be an omnipotent beardy in charge, Steff Kennedy would be demanding a few straight answers.

God--an illimitable, omnipotent, paternal spirit, who rewarded the good and punished the wicked--in contradistinction from the multifarious, subordinate, animal and bestial demi-gods of the other nations of the earth.

Fixed, and then by synthesis, that is, by fixing the volatile, which they effect by applying to the fixed, which they call their salt, the sulphurated Mercury, or the light of life, directed and made omnipotent by a Sovereign Will.

I know that there is an Omnipotent Power who governs the world with wisdom and equity, and who frequently turns the dark designs of the wicked from their original bias, to the advantage of oppressed and unrepining innocence.

It is the doctrine of all churches in Christendom that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit is infinite, eternal, uncreated and omnipotent, as may be seen in the Athanasian Creed.