potentiatedadj.

1667 R. Baxter Reasons Christian Relig. 553 The Mind or Soul of Man is a noble Essence, above the reach and nature of sense, naturally potentiated and inclined, as an active being, to intellection, volition, and seeking after things celestial and everlasting.

c1819 Coleridge's Lect. 1808–1819 on Lit. (1987) II. 374 The Energies of Intellect..in a richer and potenziated form.

1861 N. Brit. Rev. No. 70. 377 A highly potentiated feeling of human brotherhood.

1970 I. Murdoch Fairly Honourable Defeat i. xv. 165 Her body seemed to be weighted and pinned to the sloping bank by a potentiated force of gravity.

1988 N. Baker Mezzanine xiii. 107 A maelstrom of swirled foil on the top that, subjected to the subversion of the exploding kernels, first by the direct collisions of discrete corns and then in a general indirect uplift of the total volume of potentiated cellulose, gradually unfurls its dome.

1917 T. Sollmann Man. Pharmacol. 96 When several drugs are administered together, each may act independently, as if it were present alone... In many cases, however, the combined action is greater or smaller than would be calculated (potentiated and deficient summation).

1955 S. Afr. Med. Jrnl. 29 260 (title) Potentiated anaesthesia (neuroplegia) with a new short-acting mixture containing hydergine, etamon, phenergan and pethidine.

1974 Aquaculture 4 410 Other workers..have also found the in vivo efficacy of a potentiated sulphonamide..to be far superior to sulphonamide, used alone, in the treatment of furunculosis.

1985 Marketing Mag. (N.Z.) July 16/3 The company markets vitamins, minerals, homeopathically potentiated minerals, ginseng and herbal teas and tonics.

2003 Jrnl. Vet. Internal Med. 17 647 The purpose of this study was to summarize the clinical findings in 40 dogs with systemic hypersensitivity reactions associated with the administration of potentiated sulfonamides.