Potential

a. (potenciel, Fr. potendialis, Lat.) 1. Existing in po ibility, not in act (Raleigh). 2. Having the effect without the external actual property (Shekspeare). 3. Efficacious; powerful: not in use (Shakspeare). 4. In grammar, pofenéial is a mood denoting the po ibility of doing any action.