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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

plenary
    adj 1: full in all respects; "a plenary session of the
           legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, a. [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See
   Plenty.]
   Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license;
   plenary authority.
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         A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. --I.
                                                  Watts.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, n. (Law)
   Decisive procedure. [Obs.]
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

PLENARY. Full, complete. 
     2. In the courts of admiralty, and in the English ecclesiastical 
courts, causes or suits in respect of the different course of proceeding in 
each, are termed plenary or summary. Plenary, or full and formal suits, are 
those in which the proceedings must be full and formal: the term summary is 
applied to those causes where the proceedings are more succinct and less 
formal. Law's Oughton, 41; 2 Chit. Pr. 481.

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