Category:Plenary

Ple"na*ry, a. Etym: [ll. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See plenty.]

Defn: 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.

Plenary Ple"na*ry, n. (law)

Defn: decisive procedure. [obs.]