prepotent

Adjective

prepotent

1. Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
   • To ordre his subiectes after true iustice / As a prepotent prince1521, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of saynt Werburge, London: Richard Pynson, Book 1, Chapter 16
   • […] Jeff’s eyes were dry, though his face was discharged of all its prepotent impudence.1897, William Dean Howells, chapter 49, in The Landlord at Lion’s Head, New York: Harper, page 392
2. Characterized by prepotency.
   • When one parent alone displays some of the newly-acquired and generally inheritable character, and the offspring do not inherit it, the cause may lie in the other parent having the power of prepotent transmission.1868, Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 28
   • […] the mother strain, if not prepotent in the sense of science, seems to me to have outweighed that of any other relative of whom we have record.1916, C. Alphonso Smith, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 3, p. 45