Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fit for a husband; marriageable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Developed in manhood; hence, able to beget; marriageable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Developed in
manhood ; able tobeget children.
Etymologies
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Latin vir man + potens fit for.
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Examples
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Thither shortlie after came ambassadours from the emperour, requiring the kings daughter affianced (as before you haue heard) vnto him, and (being [8] now viripotent or mariable) desired that she might be deliuered vnto them.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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Houed. _] being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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