Definitions for potestas

potestas po·tes·tas

Spelling: [poh-tes-tahs, -tuh s]
IPA: /poʊˈtɛs tɑs, -təs/

Potestas is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in potestas (aeopsstt).

Definitions for potestas

noun

  1. the authority of a paterfamilias over all members of his family and household.

Origin of potestas

First recorded in 1650-60, potestas is from the Latin word potestās literally, power, control, authority

Examples for potestas

The Senate as such was distinct from the populus, as having auctoritas, while the populus had only potestas.

Where the potestas begins, Kinship begins; and therefore adoptive relatives are among the kindred.

Questions of potestas naturally range themselves under more than one head.

The children were always under the potestas of their parents.

It is, therefore, as regards both the potestas ordinis Church of England.

They further induced his father to make use of his potestas in restraining his son.

Where the potestas ends, Kinship ends; so that a son emancipated by his father loses all rights of Agnation.

Quid ergo intelligendum est, nisi quia potestas & Bonitas illa magis agebat, &c.

Change of rule of descent; relation to potestas, inheritance and local organisation.

The potestas coeundi is not lost in any degree; neither he nor the woman is conscious of any change whatever.

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