potentiation (potenshiashon)

[ at the average of forty-seven times, we shall have, from railroads alone, a working capacity equal to that of 5,293,250,000 living horses or of 31,407,750,000 laboring men. timating the increased potentiation of steam engines) Amer. Anthropologist, I. 20. [NL. (Linnæus, Potentilla (pō-ten-til'ä), п. 1737), so called in allusion to the repute of some species in medieval medicine; Flowering Plant of Cinquefoil ( Potentilla Can a dens is). acterized by the numerous pistils on the dry receptacle, styles not lengthened after flowering, ergy or force. You are potently opposed, and with a malice Of as great size. Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 1. 134. What is there in thee, Moon! that thou shouldst move My heart so potently ? Keats , Endymion, iii. 2. Hence, extremely; emphatically. From my own experience I begin to doubt most potent ly of the authenticity of many of Homer's stories. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 388. potentne (pō'tent-nes), n. The state or property of being potent; powerfulne ; strength; potency. Poterieæ (pot-e-ri'ē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1865), Poterium + -eæ.] A tribe of rosaceous plants, characterized by an inferior ovary with one ovule, and fruit of one, two, or three dry achenes inclosed within the calyx-tube. It contains 11 genera, mainly of temperate regions, both herbs and shrubs, generally without petals, producing a dry fruit resembling a rose-hip in structure, and having the five-lobed calyx provided with alternate bractlets. See Poterium (the type) and agrimony.