cross potence

English

Noun

cross potence (plural crosses potence)

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of cross potent.
   • 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:

     Chace, Gu. four crosses potence ar. two and two; on a canton az, a lion passant or.

   • 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland:

     Crest - A lion ramp. or, holding betw. his feet a cross potence gu.