† compotentadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Used by Chaucer in the following passage to represent Latin sui compos, ‘master of itself, in possession of itself’.
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society > authority > power > [adjective] > all-powerful
almightOE
all-wieldingOE
almightendc1250
almightfulc1300
compotent1391
almightyc1405
almightiful?a1475
cunctipotentc1485
omnipotenta1522
all-commanding1596
all-powerful1597
omnivalent1602
super-omnivalent1602
omniprevalenta1661
unzoned1662
omnivalous1773
pantocratic1949
1391 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. vi., 172 And it byhoueþ by necessite þat þilke þinge [eternity] be alwey present to hym self and compotent [L. idque necesse est et sui compos praesens sibi semper adsistere].
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adj.1391