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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, adjective [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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, noun (Law) Decisive procedure. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plenary
adjective: full in all respects; "a plenary session of the legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "plenary": SRO, absolute, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, comprehensive, congested, consequential, considerable, cram-full, crammed, deep, exhaustive, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, grand, grave, great, heavy, illimitable, intense, irresistible, jam-packed, limitless, main, maximum, mighty, no strings, open, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, perfect, powerful, ready to burst, replete, round, satiated, saturated, serious, soaked, standing room only, strong, stuffed, surfeited, swollen, topful, total, unbound, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfined, unequivocal, unlimited, unmeasured, unqualified, unrestricted, wide-open, without strings
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