omnipotentadj.n.

Brit.

/ɒmˈnɪpət(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ɑmˈnɪpədənt/,

/ɑmˈnɪpətnt/

Forms: Middle English omnipotende, Middle English omnypotente, Middle English omnipoten (transmission error), Middle English–1500s omnypotent, Middle English–1500s omnipotente, Middle English– omnipotent.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French omnipotent; Latin omnipotent-, omnipotēns.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French omnipotent (of God) all-powerful (early 12th cent. in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin omnipotent-, omnipotēns all-powerful, also as noun (in Christian use in post-classical Latin from Vetus Latina onwards) < omni- omni- comb. form + potēns potent adj.¹ Compare Italian onnipotente (c1224), Spanish omnipotente (1220–50), Portuguese omnipotente (13th cent.).Compare also Older Scots omnipotens (see Dict. Older Sc. Tongue s.v.).

A. adj.

1. As an attribute of a god, esp. the Christian God or Christ: almighty; all-powerful, having infinite power.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > powerful or omnipotent

almightyeOE

almightOE

almightinlOE

almightendc1250

almightfulc1300

omnipotentc1330

almightiful?a1475

omnipotentiary1659

c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 398 (MED) On Iesu omnipotent, Þat alle his honour hadde him lent, He þouȝt.

c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 423 As help me verray god omnipotent.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1415 (MED) Prayth to Venus and Mars omnipotent.

a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1414 Mercy, God omnipotent!

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 37 By god omnypotente I wolde leuer haue loste my castell.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xix. 6 Sayinge: Alleluya, for god omnipotent [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. almiȝty] hath raigned.

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1985) ii. 90 All subjectes offendynge are undre the kynges judgement: A kynge is reserved to the Lord Omnypotent.

1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. f. 285^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) I..committis my saule to God, omnipotent fader, sone & halie gaist.

1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) iii. 206 Great God! when I consider thee, Omnipotent, Æternall, and imens.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §1 A production of it by the omnipotent Will and Word of God.

1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) iv. iii. 310 That the first eternal thinking Being or omnipotent Spirit should..give to certain Systems of created sensless matter..some degrees of sense perception and thought.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 256 I told him..That he [sc. God] was omnipotent, could do every Thing for us.

1784 E. Allen Reason v. §2. 190 The omnipotent will of God.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. vii. 104 The picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 52 Whether the word of Jove omnipotent Be false or true.

1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Oct. 267/1 The pictures of God I had seen..representing his Omnipotent Deity as an old man in a flowing robe, flowing hair, flowing beard.

1998 Forum Focus Summer 22/2 It is in the nature and essence of God that He is an almighty and omnipotent Being.

2. gen. All-powerful, having absolute power. Also: having unlimited or great authority, force, or influence; extremely strong.

ΘΚΠ

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

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. vi. 49 Strang destany, quhilk may nocht be gaynstand, And fortoun eik, clepit omnipotent, Throu all extremys of sey hes hydder sent.

1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 24^v But..fayre Prince..Be omnipotent in thy resolutions, goe forward and persist euen to the death in this all-loue-gaining atchieuement [sic].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 7 O omnipotent Loue, how nere the God drew to the complexion of a Goose.

1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 12 Suffer me not to fall into the Pow'rs Of Mens almost Omnipotent Amours.

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. i. 127 Omnipotent Gold has a Power so extensive, that we presume we are not guilty of Hyperboly..in representing it, as the grand Universal.

1775 E. Burke Let. to Duke of Richmond in Corr. (1844) II. 75 The tories and courtiers are powerful there, but not omnipotent.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 167 The Duke of Buckingham, the omnipotent favourite both of the King and the Prince of Wales.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 395 In his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 79 The Senate was thus made omnipotent and irresponsible.

1904 Daily Chron. 29 July 4/4 M. Plehve..well knew that the Tsar, the amiable youngster,..was a tool in the hands of the omnipotent tchin.

1965 I. Murdoch Red & Green xi. 161 Suddenly he was omnipotent, the benevolent despot of his little world.

1994 Sci. Fiction Age July 30/2 Those to the left worry about the machinations of omnipotent megacorporations.

†3. Unparalleled, utter, arrant; huge, mighty (cf. almighty adj. 2a). Frequently humorous. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge

unmeeteOE

unmeetlyOE

hugea1275

hideousc1330

infinitec1385

unmeasureda1398

unmeasurablec1405

hugyc1420

immeasurable1440

ingentc1450

unmeetlyc1450

giant1480

immense1490

monstrous?a1513

unmeasurely1513

hugeousa1529

unportable1537

enormous1544

enormc1560

giantly1561

immensible1579

rouncival1582

dismeasured1584

vast1585

immeasured1590

gargantuan1596

omnipotent1596

colossian1601

immane1601

prodigious1601

Polyphemian1602

Titanian1603

titanical1603

gigantical1604

immensive1604

gigantine1605

colossic1607

gigantean1611

Gogmagotical1612

gigantal?1614

Babylonian1617

leviathan1625

titanic1628

elephantine1631

gigantive1638

colossean1644

decumanal1652

immensurate1654

gigant1658

decuman1659

colossal1664

abnormous1710

Brobdingnagian1728

Brobdingnag1731

Pantagruelian1737

heroic1785

Patagonian1786

seven-league1787

Titan1793

gigantic1797

seven-leagued1799

mammoth1801

dimensionless1813

tremendous1813

gigantesque1821

monster1837

titanesque1838

monstre1840

giantlike1847

leviathanic1848

pythonic1851

Babylonic1853

supercolossal1871

giantesque1909

behemothian1910

supergiant1919

ginormous1942

big-ass1945

Ozymandian1961

fuck-off1962

mega1968

humongous1970

monstro1970

big-assed1972

big-arsed1996

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person

arrant1393

errant1393

starka1470

unconscionable1591

omnipotent1596

incarnative1598

run devil1786

incarnate1820

blithering1889

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2^v Farre more boystrous and cumbersome, than a payre of Swissers omnipotent galeaze breeches.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 108 This is the most omnipotent villaine that euer cried, stand, to a true man.

1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 20^v The sorrowfull Queene, whose omnipotent sorrow for her Lords losse, might either witnesse her innocence, or haue excused the addition of other woes.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 25 At length an omnipotent thrust murther'd at once my maidenhead.

B. n.

An omnipotent person or being; spec. (with the): God. Occasionally in plural: a group of people collectively sharing omnipotence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as ruler

God almightyeOE

kingeOE

waldendeOE

almightyOE

heaven kingOE

dihtendec1200

rectora1513

omnipotent1562

almight?1580

Pantocrator1759

Goramighty1816

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 22 We pray the Omnipotent to be mercyfull.

1577 J. Knox in Facsimiles National MSS Scotl. (1871) III. lxi I committ you to the protectioun of the Omnipotent.

1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 5 In such sort as it pleaseth the Omnipotent to make them worthie.

1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Divine Poems xxxvi. 45 For the Omnipotent is onely wise: Nor will the great in Power the weake despise.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 49 Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.

1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) iii. 175 When the Omnipotent commands, the Sun Doth not arise, or stops i' th' radiant Passage.

1761 J. Hawkesworth Almoran & Hamet I. ix. 120 As the dust is to the mountain, so is all that the storms of life can take from virtue, to the sum of good which the Omnipotent has appointed for its reward.

1807 C. Smith Beachy Head 1 The strange and awful hour Of vast concussion; when the Omnipotent Stretch'd forth his arm, and rent the solid hills.

1829 J. Miller Sibyl's Leaves I. 288 What can an Omnipotent find in the possession of his power, an Omniscient in the possession of his wisdom, but that love [etc.]?

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 The open mind, The Omnipotent's prime gift.

1969 Science 9 May 651/2 At the Brussels medical school, the academic omnipotents..usually reigned from their positions as chiefs of the school's services.

1999 Spark (Reading University Students Union) 8 Feb. (Election Special) p. iii At the top of the tree comes the bigwig, the Union President, the omnipotent who gets their name in Spark all the time.

Derivatives

† omnipotentness n. Obsolete rare = omnipotence n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power

almightinesslOE

almightiheada1425

omnipotencea1460

omnipotencya1525

omnipotency1604

omnivalence1607

all-powerfulness1614

all-potency1642

almightyship1663

omnipotentness1727

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > power or omnipotence

mighteOE

craftOE

all-mightOE

omnipotencec1475

ordinate powerc1475

omnipotencya1500

all-powera1681

omnipotentness1727

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Omnipotentness, all-powerfulness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	omnipotent
释义	omnipotentadj.n. Brit. /ɒmˈnɪpət(ə)nt/, U.S. /ɑmˈnɪpədənt/, /ɑmˈnɪpətnt/ Forms: Middle English omnipotende, Middle English omnypotente, Middle English omnipoten (transmission error), Middle English–1500s omnypotent, Middle English–1500s omnipotente, Middle English– omnipotent. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French omnipotent; Latin omnipotent-, omnipotēns. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French omnipotent (of God) all-powerful (early 12th cent. in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin omnipotent-, omnipotēns all-powerful, also as noun (in Christian use in post-classical Latin from Vetus Latina onwards) < omni- omni- comb. form + potēns potent adj.¹ Compare Italian onnipotente (c1224), Spanish omnipotente (1220–50), Portuguese omnipotente (13th cent.).Compare also Older Scots omnipotens (see Dict. Older Sc. Tongue s.v.). A. adj. 1. As an attribute of a god, esp. the Christian God or Christ: almighty; all-powerful, having infinite power. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > powerful or omnipotent almightyeOE almightOE almightinlOE almightendc1250 almightfulc1300 omnipotentc1330 almightiful?a1475 omnipotentiary1659 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 398 (MED) On Iesu omnipotent, Þat alle his honour hadde him lent, He þouȝt. c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 423 As help me verray god omnipotent. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 1415 (MED) Prayth to Venus and Mars omnipotent. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1414 Mercy, God omnipotent! 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 37 By god omnypotente I wolde leuer haue loste my castell. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xix. 6 Sayinge: Alleluya, for god omnipotent [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. almiȝty] hath raigned. a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1985) ii. 90 All subjectes offendynge are undre the kynges judgement: A kynge is reserved to the Lord Omnypotent. 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. f. 285^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) I..committis my saule to God, omnipotent fader, sone & halie gaist. 1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) iii. 206 Great God! when I consider thee, Omnipotent, Æternall, and imens. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §1 A production of it by the omnipotent Will and Word of God. 1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) iv. iii. 310 That the first eternal thinking Being or omnipotent Spirit should..give to certain Systems of created sensless matter..some degrees of sense perception and thought. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 256 I told him..That he [sc. God] was omnipotent, could do every Thing for us. 1784 E. Allen Reason v. §2. 190 The omnipotent will of God. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. vii. 104 The picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 52 Whether the word of Jove omnipotent Be false or true. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Oct. 267/1 The pictures of God I had seen..representing his Omnipotent Deity as an old man in a flowing robe, flowing hair, flowing beard. 1998 Forum Focus Summer 22/2 It is in the nature and essence of God that He is an almighty and omnipotent Being. 2. gen. All-powerful, having absolute power. Also: having unlimited or great authority, force, or influence; extremely strong. ΘΚΠ 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 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. vi. 49 Strang destany, quhilk may nocht be gaynstand, And fortoun eik, clepit omnipotent, Throu all extremys of sey hes hydder sent. 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 24^v But..fayre Prince..Be omnipotent in thy resolutions, goe forward and persist euen to the death in this all-loue-gaining atchieuement [sic]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 7 O omnipotent Loue, how nere the God drew to the complexion of a Goose. View more context for this quotation 1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 12 Suffer me not to fall into the Pow'rs Of Mens almost Omnipotent Amours. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. i. 127 Omnipotent Gold has a Power so extensive, that we presume we are not guilty of Hyperboly..in representing it, as the grand Universal. 1775 E. Burke Let. to Duke of Richmond in Corr. (1844) II. 75 The tories and courtiers are powerful there, but not omnipotent. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 167 The Duke of Buckingham, the omnipotent favourite both of the King and the Prince of Wales. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxi. 395 In his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar viii. 79 The Senate was thus made omnipotent and irresponsible. 1904 Daily Chron. 29 July 4/4 M. Plehve..well knew that the Tsar, the amiable youngster,..was a tool in the hands of the omnipotent tchin. 1965 I. Murdoch Red & Green xi. 161 Suddenly he was omnipotent, the benevolent despot of his little world. 1994 Sci. Fiction Age July 30/2 Those to the left worry about the machinations of omnipotent megacorporations. †3. Unparalleled, utter, arrant; huge, mighty (cf. almighty adj. 2a). Frequently humorous. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person arrant1393 errant1393 starka1470 unconscionable1591 omnipotent1596 incarnative1598 run devil1786 incarnate1820 blithering1889 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2^v Farre more boystrous and cumbersome, than a payre of Swissers omnipotent galeaze breeches. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 108 This is the most omnipotent villaine that euer cried, stand, to a true man. View more context for this quotation 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 20^v The sorrowfull Queene, whose omnipotent sorrow for her Lords losse, might either witnesse her innocence, or haue excused the addition of other woes. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 25 At length an omnipotent thrust murther'd at once my maidenhead. B. n. An omnipotent person or being; spec. (with the): God. Occasionally in plural: a group of people collectively sharing omnipotence. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as ruler God almightyeOE kingeOE waldendeOE almightyOE heaven kingOE dihtendec1200 rectora1513 omnipotent1562 almight?1580 Pantocrator1759 Goramighty1816 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 22 We pray the Omnipotent to be mercyfull. 1577 J. Knox in Facsimiles National MSS Scotl. (1871) III. lxi I committ you to the protectioun of the Omnipotent. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 5 In such sort as it pleaseth the Omnipotent to make them worthie. 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Divine Poems xxxvi. 45 For the Omnipotent is onely wise: Nor will the great in Power the weake despise. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 49 Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms. View more context for this quotation 1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) iii. 175 When the Omnipotent commands, the Sun Doth not arise, or stops i' th' radiant Passage. 1761 J. Hawkesworth Almoran & Hamet I. ix. 120 As the dust is to the mountain, so is all that the storms of life can take from virtue, to the sum of good which the Omnipotent has appointed for its reward. 1807 C. Smith Beachy Head 1 The strange and awful hour Of vast concussion; when the Omnipotent Stretch'd forth his arm, and rent the solid hills. 1829 J. Miller Sibyl's Leaves I. 288 What can an Omnipotent find in the possession of his power, an Omniscient in the possession of his wisdom, but that love [etc.]? 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 62 The open mind, The Omnipotent's prime gift. 1969 Science 9 May 651/2 At the Brussels medical school, the academic omnipotents..usually reigned from their positions as chiefs of the school's services. 1999 Spark (Reading University Students Union) 8 Feb. (Election Special) p. iii At the top of the tree comes the bigwig, the Union President, the omnipotent who gets their name in Spark all the time. Derivatives † omnipotentness n. Obsolete rare = omnipotence n.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power almightinesslOE almightiheada1425 omnipotencea1460 omnipotencya1525 omnipotency1604 omnivalence1607 all-powerfulness1614 all-potency1642 almightyship1663 omnipotentness1727 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > power or omnipotence mighteOE craftOE all-mightOE omnipotencec1475 ordinate powerc1475 omnipotencya1500 all-powera1681 omnipotentness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Omnipotentness, all-powerfulness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.c1330
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