A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Plenare, -ere, Planer(e, Playner(e, a. [ME. plener (c 1290), pleyner, north. ME. playnere (c 1440), AF. plener, OF. plenier, planier, late L. plēnāris, f. L. plēnus. (Cf. the later e.m.E. plenarie (151 7), -ary (1532), late L. plēnārius, f. L. plenus.) Only early.] Plenary. a. Of complete or entire authority. b. Not deficient, complete, entire. —1375 Barb. i. 624.
This lettir sall I entyr heyr Befor all ȝour consaill planer Ib. in c1420 Wynt. viii. 2846 (R).
Playnere [C. playner] ?1438 Alex. (c 1580) ii. 655.
Tomorne cumis vs succour planere [: withouttin were] 1402 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 56.
The procuratours … hauand full & plenere commissions under the commone selys 14.. Acts I. 10/2.
That nane … be fra tha mutis undir the kyngis plenare and ful [L. plenariam] forfatour except for an manifest and lauchful caus
