Definition of "mighty"

And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Chronicles 11:12

Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 9:4

Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]

1809, A History of New York, Washington Irving

His mighty works

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 11:20

Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], page 42, lines 637–638

Mighty was their fuss about little matters.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.

1665 June 7 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 28th, 1665 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894

'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82

"You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927,

I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way

1964, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Motorpsycho Nitemare”

And I know my love, it's about that time / Make me feel, mighty real

1979, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, performed by Sylvester