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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.…

Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. Sterne.

e or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose. Poetic license. See License, n., 4.

anted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence. Do not presume too much upon my love. Shak. This man presumes upon his parts. Locke.

In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.

rsity, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach. [Scot.]

The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

t. "Let their eyes rove without rein." Milton. To give rein, To give the rein to, to give license to; to leave withouut restrain. -- To take the reins, to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.

d; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.

one used as a lash in inflicting punishment. -- To give one rope, to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.

sink, as a vessel. (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. -- To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. -- To run int…

, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

A person licensed as a pilot. [Slang]

dge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]

Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency. "Take thy swing." Dryden. To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius. Burke. Full swing. See under Full. -- Swing beam (Railway Mach.), a crosspiece sustaining the car body, and so suspended from the framing of a truck that it…

odated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

ke terrible. [Obs.] If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself. Milton.