cross potence
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- (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.