PLENARY

plenary. Plenary, a. full, complete; n. a decisive procedure

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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.