Adjective

(en adjective)

Having unlimited power, force or authority.

(biology) Describing a cell (especially a stem cell) that is capable of developing into any type of cell or forming any type of tissue (also called a totipotent cell). See also pluripotent.

Adjective

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Competent in every area; capable of doing everything.

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, year = 1922 , first = Niles , last = Carpenter , title = Guild Socialism: An Historical and Critical Analysis , publisher = D. Appleton and Co. , location = New York; London , ol = 6647557M , lccn = 22018930 , oclc = 1442749 , page = 273 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5tgtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=omnicompetent , passage = The omnicompetent state admittedly works badly at times, but it does work, which is more than the impotent "commune" would be likely to do. }}

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, year = 1942 , month = March , title = How Valid is Public Opinion? , first = Leon , last = Weaver , journal = Social Forces , volume = 20 , issue = 3 , issn = 0037-7732 , jstor = 3005620 , pages = 341-344 , passage = Are the judgments of public opinion inevitably "right" or even relatively wise, or are they merely the resultants of the delusions, prejudices, and inadequacies of the supposedly omnicompetent citizen exercising his "right divine of the ignorant to govern wrong"? }}

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, year = 1962 , month = April , title = Reflections on the New Soviet Party Program , first = Elliot R. , last = Goodman , journal = Russian Review , issn = 0036-0341 , volume = 21 , issue = 2 , pages = 109-120 , jstor = 126374 , passage = Soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, the image of the future omnicompetent , endlessly mobile man was restated by Bukharin and Preobrazhensky in their political primer, The ABC of Communism . }}

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, year = 1990 , first = Lee , last = Hardy , title = The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work , publisher = Wm. B. Eerdmans , location = Grand Rapids , isbn = 9780802802989 , lccn = 90032758 , oclc = 21197452 , ol = 1873061M , page = 166 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5HGFXfOrBYgC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=omnicompetent , passage = Granted, management is not omnicompetent'; that is why it must rely on the expertise of the workers. But neither are the workers ' omnicompetent . }}

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, year = 1998 , month = June , title = Building a Better Ad Watch: Talking Patterns to the American Voter , first = Glenn W., Jr. , last = Richardson , journal = The International Journal of Press/Politics , volume = 3 , issue = 3 , pages = 76-95 , doi = 10.1177/1081180X98003003006 , passage = To Lippmann, democratic theory presented an idealized vision of omnicompetent citizens capable of making informed decisions leading to wise laws and good government, a condition that plainly did not obtain. }}