单词 | multipotent |
释义 | multipotentadj. 1. Having much power; very powerful. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [adjective] > having great or supreme power prepotent1468 maximious?1567 all-powerful1597 multipotent1609 magnipotent1727 prepotential1888 the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [adjective] > greatly mightyeOE strongeOE virtuous1340 rich?c1450 prevalent?a1475 energical1565 powerful?1567 powerable1580 magnipotent1599 virulent1599 validous1603 Herculanean1604 multipotent1609 energetical1610 prevailent1623 energetic1642 valid1656 energic1663 drastic1808 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. vii. 13 Ioue multipotent . View more context for this quotation 1623 G. Lauder tr. L. Capilupus Order of Friers in Anatomie of Romane Clergie 1 My song shall be of Friers multipotent, Who harbour grauitie within a gowne. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 239 Thousands famished, and put to the sword within this multipotent City, by Vespasian. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Multipotent, that may or can do much. 1759 W. Hawkins Cymbeline iii. 39 By Jove multipotent there's not a couple, Whose praise fame trumpets with her loud'st O yes, That can out-peer these twain. 1858 Harper's Mag. July 159/2 The Horrys, the Postelles, the Jameses, and others less conspicuous, emulated their commander, and as leaders of small bands they made Marion multipotent. 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 28 Feb. I leave this imperial and multipotent numeral seven where the Bible leaves it. 2002 Re: Big Bang This in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet newsgroup) 29 Mar. Omnipotent entities are abominations—multipotent ones, in time we will learn. 2. Biology and Medicine. = multipotential adj. Cf. pluripotential adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adjective] > potency or competence sterile1856 totipotent1904 multipotential1913 unipotent1913 multipotent1928 competent1932 totipotential1934 1928 Biol. Rev. 3 149 The leaf primordia at the growing point of the shoot are genetically multipotent. 1936 Amer. Naturalist 70 258 Tissue cells of the Metazoa fall into three general categories: (1) unspecialized multipotent cells able to divide freely by mitosis, [etc.]. 1969 Physics Bull. Jan. 6/1 The severity of this defect is dependent on the complexity of the embryo since, after the twelfth cell stage, many of the cells are still multipotent. 1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2997/1 Interleukin-3..is a growth factor that supports the in vitro proliferation of multipotent hematopoietic cells. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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