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‖ poˈtentia
[L., = power.]
in potentia = in posse: see ‖ in 38.
1601A. Copley Answ. Let. Jesuited Gent. 26 No compleate head in esse but only in potentia. 1612B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E 1 The Egg's..a Chicken, in Potentia. 1674N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge vi. 170 Gods bare Essence must be forthwith or actu, but his everlasting Essence..must be forth-coming or in potentia. 1797Encycl. Brit. XV. 441/2 Potential, in the schools, is used to denote and distinguish a kind of qualities, which are supposed to exist in the body in potentia only. 1948Mind LVII. 486 When I claim to know I simply make emphatic that I am logically committed, in potentia, in certain determinate ways. 1957L. Durrell Justine i. 75 Life, the new material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. |