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Webster 1913 Edition
Plenipotentiary
Plenˊi-po-ten′ti-a-ry
(plĕn′ĭ-pō̍-tĕn′shĭ-ā̍-ry̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Plenipotentiaries
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. [LL.
plenipotentiarius
: cf. F. plénipotentiaire
.] A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.
Plenˊi-po-ten′ti-a-ry
,Adj.
Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power;
as,
plenipotentiary
license; plenipotentiary
ministers. Howell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Plenipotentiary
PLENIPOTEN'TIARY
,Noun.
PLENIPOTEN'TIARY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
plenipotentiary
plenipotentiary
English
Noun
plenipotentiary (plural plenipotentiaries)
- A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
- 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
- Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.
- 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
Derived terms
- (ambassador and) minister plenipotentiary
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:plenipotentiary.
Translations
person invested with supreme authority
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Adjective
plenipotentiary (not comparable)
- Invested with full power.
- Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
Synonyms
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:plenipotentiary.
Translations
invested with full power
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of or relating to a plenipotentiary
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