Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Plenary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, a. [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See
{Plenty}.]
Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license;
plenary authority.
A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. --I.
Watts.
{Plenary indulgence} (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of
temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all
sins.
{Plenary inspiration}. (Theol.) See under {Inspiration}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, n. (Law)
Decisive procedure. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plenary
adj : full in all respects; "a plenary session of the
legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"
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