It is easy enough to produce colloidal slime, but to endow it with these wonderful powers so that "the promise and thepotency of all terrestrial life" slumbers in it is a staggering proposition.
Brooded by the sun, the earth hatched her offspring; the promise and the potency of all terrestrial life was in the earth herself; her womb was fertile from the first.
His famous, and to many minds disquieting, declaration, made in his Belfast address over thirty years ago, that in matter itself he saw the promise and the potencyof all terrestrial life, stamps him as a scientific materialist.
Herein lies the reasonableness of the high-potency dose.
His conclusion was that the advocates of the Iceberg theory had formed "too extravagant notions regarding the potency of floating ice as a striating agent.
You will at once see that, if such were the fact, it would be a new form of dimorphism, and would open up a large field of inquiry with respect to the potency of the pollen in all plants which have two sets of stamens--viz.
The potency of the plant depends on its cicutoxin, a principle derived from the resinous constituents, and [252] which powerfully affects the organic functions through the spinal cord.
When the action of the heart is laboured and feeble through lack of nervous power, muscarin, or the tincture of Fly Agaric, in a much diluted potency will relieve this trouble.
Soil, situation, and the time of year, materially affect the potency of Hemlock.
Pure potency held the lowest part;[5] in the middle such a bond unites potency with act, that it is never unbound.
The substances in which potency and act are united are the creatures endowed with bodies and souls.
There is astounding potency in the charm of the work and in the appeal that it makes to the imagination.
Beethoven individuality on every page, and is comparable with Mozart's G minor in the richness of its organisation and the potency of its charm.
On the contrary the beneficent potency of the laws of electricity is so great that our largest hopes for the improvement of our economic condition rest on its unexplored resources.
Sophia was living in that tense numbness now, but through it external things made their potency felt.
The next step to test the potency of these germs to generate the disease in animals whence they were originally obtained, was to vaccinate animals with a few drops of the fluid thus artificially infected.
Their potency was found absolute, their safety very nearly complete, and, after the death of Wells in 1848, nitrous oxide was soon neglected and almost forgotten.
In the life-story of this tiny germ lie both the potency for mischief which we deplore and the secret of our release from its bondage.
Both these plans have been adopted, with the result of proving that the potency of the germs can be so diminished as to render the disease produced by their introduction so mild as to be of no importance.
The next objection, which is in part metaphysical, is founded on the difficulty of ascribing any ultimate reality or potency to forces diminishing through eternal time.
To what actions, then, is so great a potency of the 30 circulating water to be traced?
An universe of matter containing the "promise and potency of all forms and qualities of life" is as intelligible and comprehensible as a God outside the Universe embodying the potency of all life.
I discern in matter * * the promise and potency of all forms and qualities of life.
It is indeed an obvious remnant of the ancient Roman amulet, the potency of which is strengthened by the addition of a Christian mystery.
He assumes emanations from the ground, but they are no longer from the bowels of the earth, or from deposits of strange minerals requiring earthquakes to set them free, or "fire and menstruums" to give potency to them.
It is the determination that gives the body its specific and substantial being; the primal actuation of a body or matter, since only in matter is there a distinction between potency for substantial being and substantial actuality.
A body might be in potency while it still has no principle of operation, or, secondly, while it has such a principle but is not using it.
In the second condition the human body is in potency for life at the moment of actualization.
The argument Ferreres uses, to the effect that the absence of spermatozoa is seriously injurious to the woman, is a supposition of his own arising from an erroneous notion of potency in the vasectomized.
In this hypothesis the killing of the embryo would be a great crime, because the embryo would be in potency for the reception of human life, but the act would not be murder.
But it was one of those accidents which, suddenly befalling a creative mind, organise its loose and scattered material with a magical potency unattainable by prolonged cogitation.
Here, too, a theological dogma, steeped in his ardent mind, acquired a new potency for the imagination, and a more vital nexus with man and nature than any other poet of the century had given it.
Finally, the grisly mess is allowed to simmer in a stinkpot[302] shell under the fierce desert sun until its ripeness and putrid potency are attested by the rank fetor of death; when it is ready for its ruthless use.
Henceforward a new fortune Must spring up for me; for the potency Of this charm is dissolved.
Does time, Which pours a balm on every wounded heart, Lose all its potency with thee alone?
Politically it is a great illustration of the potency of economic forces.
Something was said in another place about the potency of the number "three" to effect a charm either for good or for evil.
In the country, it is the woman who is ready to quarrel with you, if, in some unguarded moment, you should venture to doubt the potency of her manifold signs.
Domestic training has shrunk, while the training of haphazard companions, the training of the streets, the training of the newspapers, have acquired a potency hitherto unknown.
There is no sudden transformation, but the boy comes gradually to perceive that in the determination of the will are found the promise and potency of every form of life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potency" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
