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▪ I. † viˈripotent, a.1 Obs.
[ad. late L. viripotent-, viripotens, f. vir man, husband + potens able.]
Of a woman: Physically fit for marriage; of a marriageable age.
1587Holinshed Chron. (ed. 2) III. 38/1 The kings daughter affianced..vnto him, and being now viripotent or mariable. Ibid. 101/2 He would not suffer his sonne to marrie hir, being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable. 1623Cockeram i. 1656Blount Glossogr.
▪ II. † viˈripotent, a.2 Obs.—1
[ad. L. vīripotent-, vīripotens (Plautus), f. vīrēs strength.]
Possessed of strength or energy.
1646Gaule Cases of Conscience 113 Of giving Potions to make people love or hate as they please. Making the strength of youth impotent, and dead Bodies viripotent. |