In this form the Martialists assert that they obtain without waste all the potential energy stored in ...

The cowboy breathed a potential force.

The potential combinations and compensations, antagonisms and counteractions, attainable within the endocrine glands as an interlocking directorate, point the cause for the elusive quality of the normal.

Every court is a potential conspiracy against freedom, and the League cannot tolerate merely court appointments.

It may take obstinate men a few more years yet of blood and horror to learn this lesson, but for my own part I cherish an obstinate belief in the potential reasonableness of mankind.

While the Sequoia was first emerging from the Carboniferous, or Coal Period, the reptile-like ancestors of these mammals, covered with scales and of egg-laying habits, were crawling about and giving not the most remote prophecy of their potential transformation through 10,000,000 of years into the superb fauna of the northern hemisphere.

So that he was only a potential defaulter, so to speak; and, discreditable as the affair undoubtedly was, it does not seem to have any direct bearing on this present case.

" "Women and children, potential sympathizers and supporters of all classes?" the Irishman persisted in incredulous horror"all?" "All," Victor affirmed, coldly.

[Lat.]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire.

Adj. powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent^, plenipotent^, omnipotent; almighty. forcible &c adj.. (energetic) 171; influential &c 175; productive &c 168.

Whether this insolence rested upon law that gave it a sanction, or upon conscious power, haughtily dispensing with that sanction, equally it spoke from a potential station; and the agent in each particular insolence of the moment, was viewed reverentially, as one having authority.

Through her peculiar situation, threatened and overshadowed by potential enemies, France has been forced to a policy of militarism, with a large subordination of the individual to the state.

His play is like a badly-designed engine in which a large part of the potential energy is dissipated to no purpose.

For my own part I would spare no pains to improve our relations with native Governments, and more and more these relations may become of potential value to the Government of India.

The expression was a strange one; for it showed doubt, fear, conditional hatred, and potential vengeancea complicated state of mind, which the cleverest judge of human faces could hardly have understood from Matilde's features.

Under these painful circumstances, and with the chance of still further abstractions from our common stock of potential learning, we have engaged a staff of consulting engineers, who contract, for certain considerations, to know every useless thing from A to Z, and every obsolete one from Omega to Alpha.

To perfect, is simply to make active a potential possession, to unfold capacities and to elevate the unconscious into consciousness.

All knowledge is inborn; all men are potential philosophers (and, so far as they are loyal to conscience, Christians); the spirit is a thinking and a thinkable universe.

" I felt the veriest scoundrel, and yet the words came out as smoothly as I have written them, as if to show me that I had been a potential scoundrel all my life.

Max Hempel never hoped much on general principles, so far as potential stars were concerned.

It took us but a very few minutes indeed to be ready for a concert, and from the time when we sighted a potential audience to the moment for the opening number was an almost incredibly brief period.

To these must be added a certain mental shapelessness which can expand or contract without reference to reason or record; a potential infinity of excuses.

"It always has some respect to the power of the agent; and is therefore properly stiled the potential mode."Ib., p. 29.

A verb is conjugated interrogatively, in the indicative and potential moods, by placing the nominative after it, or after the first auxiliary: as, FIRST PERSON SINGULAR.

A verb is conjugated interrogatively and negatively, in the indicative and potential moods, by placing the nominative and