Lexic.us

Definition of Influential

1. Adjective. Having or exercising influence or power. "Influential leadership for peace"

Definition of Influential

1. a. Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc.

Definition of Influential

1. Adjective. Having or exerting influence. ¹

2. Noun. A person who has influence ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Influential

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Influential

Literary usage of Influential

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His field was broader than was ever before given to any preacher, and no man that ever lived preached continuously to so large and influential audiences. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... including abbots, was 39. been the boldest and most influential speakers in the Council (for example, the cardinal legate Juliano, and the great canon ..."

3. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"To provide for this it intended to establish about 300 scholarships, for which the most influential support has already been promised, and further support ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... by the following plan : — membered Latin inscription to a gentleman of the place, he told me, that an influential person in the neighbourhood wished to ..."

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