PLENARY

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.

2.
n.

Decisive procedure. [Obs.]


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