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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xxiii. 8 Dominus fortis et potens, dominus potens in proelio : dryhten strong & maehtig, dryhten maehtig in gefehte.

OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 324 He swa mihtig is þæt he mæg forgyfan ealra manna synna.

OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. xiv. 56 Ða wæs on þa tid Æðelbyrht cyning haten on Centrice, & mihtig.

a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 231 An rice king wes, strang and mihti.

a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 273 (MED) Drihti[n] is mahti, strong, and kene ifihte.

c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 346 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 229 (MED) Ne wenestþou nouȝt þat ore louerd beo ase miȝti here as þere?

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 103 He is þe riȝt guod,..þe riȝt miȝti.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 378 Thei sein that god is myhti there, And schal ordeine what he wile.

c1450 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 303 (MED) To the rigth and myghti princes, the duchesse of Suffolke.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bvi^v Thai mighty men vpon mold ane riale course maid.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 12295 Menelay the mighty, & mo other kynges, Keppit hom full cloise for cacchyng of harme.

1595 R. Southwell Hvmble Svpplication to Her Maiestie 72 Though it rest not in a priuate mans power, to stay the endeauours of so mightie a Prince, in so generall, and important an enterprise, as is war with England.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 283 Most mighty Duke, vouchsafe me speak a word. View more context for this quotation

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 124 God..from him will raise A mightie Nation. View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 147 Mighty Cæsar, thund'ring from afar, Seeks on Euphrates Banks the Spoils of War. View more context for this quotation

1750 Bible (Challoner) Isa. ix. 6 His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the World to come, the Prince of Peace.

1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 94 I know thee now, Mightiest of a mighty line.

1816–20 J. Keats Poems 324 O mighty Princess, did you ne'er hear tell What your poor servants know but too too well?

1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 40 Fear not, isle of blowing woodland,..thou shalt be the mighty one yet!

1896 G. Barlow Jesus of Nazareth iii. iv. 92 Yea, were the sire of gods, the mighty Jove, Proud passionate Mary's kingly paramour, My soul would, seeking, mount up to the stars.

1908 Daily Chron. 31 Jan. 4/7 There is nothing analogous to the constitution and condition of that mighty republic..which has, during the last fifteen or twenty years, superseded the old oligarchy in journalism.

1986 M. Foot Loyalists & Loners 142 No observer could suppose that so mighty a figure as Lloyd George..was to stay excluded from office until his dying day, twenty-two years later.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 439/2 The son of Earl Erlend of Orkney and grandson of Earl Thorfinn the Mighty.