plenary
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A. adj.

    1. Complete, entire, perfect, not deficient in any element or
respect; = FULL a. 7; absolute, unqualified: as plenary indulgence,
power, remission. plenary inspiration: see INSPIRATION.

    2. Of an assembly, etc.: Composed of all the members: fully
constituted, fully attended: = PLENAR 1.

    3. Possessing full powers or authority. rare.

    4. Law. See quot. 1848.

    B. ellipt. as n.

    1. = Plenary indulgence. rare.

    2. in plenary: of an assembly, etc.: fully constituted or attended.

    3. Anglicized form of PLENARIUM.     

  {page}The sense `Decisive procedure', given by Johnson, and copied in
later Dicts., is without foundation. In the quot. which J. cites from
Ayliffe Parergon 301 `Institution without induction does not make a
plenary against the king, where he has a title to present', plenary is a
misprint for plenarty, which Ayliffe has in the correct spelling on the
same page and elsewhere; cf. quot. 1791 in PLENARTY 1.