different between bepowder vs bepower

English

Etymology

be- +? powder

Verb

bepowder (third-person singular simple present bepowders, present participle bepowdering, simple past and past participle bepowdered)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

Translations

English

Etymology

From be- +? power.

Verb

bepower (third-person singular simple present bepowers, present participle bepowering, simple past and past participle bepowered)

1. (transitive) To give power to; imbue with power.
   • 2000, Foundation for Education, Science, and Technology (South Africa). Bureau for Scientific Publications, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South African journal of philosophy:

     However, Heidegger (28) insists that what really "bepowers" this principle emerges in its precise formulation as the principium reddendae rationis; that is, something is only an object for a rational subject if we can offer ourselves reasons for it.

   • 2008, Cristian Calude, Gregory J. Chaitin, Randomness and complexity: from Leibniz to Chaitin:

     "Only through looking back on what Leibniz thought can we characterise the present age—an age one calls the atomic age—as an age pervasively bepowered by the power of the principium rationis sufficientis."