Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Puissant

Puissant , adjective

[French, originally, a p. pr. formed from Latin posse to be able: compare Latin potens powerful. See Potent.]

Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.
Puissant deeds. — Milton
Of puissant nations which the world possessed. — Spenser
And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant. — Mrs. Browning