plenipot (plenipo)

ation of plenipotentiary. I'll give all my silver amongst the drawers, make a bonfire before the door, say the plenipos have signed the peace, and the Bank of England 's grown honest. Vanbrugh , Provoked Wife, iii. 1. plenipotence (ple-nip'ō-tens), n . [= Sp. Pg. plenipo ten cia = It. plenipotenza ; as plenipo ten ( t ) + -ce . ] Fullne or completene of power. A whole parliament endewed with the plenipotence of a free nation. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, § 6. plenipotency (plē-nip'ō-ten-si), n. Same as plenipotence . plenipotent (plē-nip'ō-tent), a. [ My substitutes I send ye, and create Plenipotent on earth, of matchle might I uing from me. Milton , P. L., x. 404. IMG:content-0413.png:[blocks in formation] plenitudinary (plen-i-tü'di-nā-ri), a. [L. plenitudo ( -din- ), plenitude, + -ary.] Characterized by plenitude, fullne , or completene . plentet, n. A Middle English form of plenty. plenteous (plen'te-us), a. [ I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. 101. 2. Yielding abundance; fruitful; productive. Toward that land he toke the waye full right, Whiche was callid a plentevous contre. The seven plenteous years. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1031. Gen. xli. 34. 3. Bountifully or abundantly supplied; well provided for; rich; characterized by plenty: formerly sometimes followed by of before the thing that abounds or is plentiful: as, plente ous in grace; plenteous of good fish. It is a fair Cytee, and plenteevous of alle Godes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 211. Thys Ile ys a grett Ile and a Plenteows of all maner of Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 20. plenipotentiary (plen"i-po-ten's hi-ā-ri), a. and n. [F. plénipotentiaire = Sp. Pg. plenipo ten ciario = It. plenipotenziario, I hear the Peace betwixt Spain and Holland is absolutely concluded by the Plenipotentiary Ministers at Munster. Howell , Letters, ii. 43. IMG:content-0414.png:[blocks in formation] II. n.; pl. plenipotentiaries (-riz). A person invested with full power to transact any busine ; specifically, an amba ador or envoy to a foreign court, furnished with full powers to negotiate a treaty or to transact other busine . Be a man neuer so valiaunt, so wise, so liber all or plentu A plenipotentiary is not nece arily accredited to any ous , if he be sene to exercise iniustyce, it is often specified foreign court. Frequently meetings of pleniremembred. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 4. potentiaries for concluding peace, negotiating treaties, etc., are held in some neutral place, so that they may con- =Syn. 1. Copious , etc. See ample . duct their negotiations and despatch their busine uninplenteously (plen'tē-us-li), adv . In a plentefluenced by any special power. ous manner; copiously; plentifully; bountifully; generously. The treaty of Blois had not received the ratification of the Navarrese sovereigns; but it was executed by their plenipotentiaries , duly authorized. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 23. The terms or propositions of peace should have been fully, frankly, and unreservedly laid before the plenipo tentiaries a embled at Utrecht. Plenary mi al. See mi al. II. n . In law , decisive procedure. Ayliffe . Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., i. plenish (plen'ish), v. t. [ How art thou then for spread tables and plenished flaggon's? Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh (1657). ( Latham. ) He must be a Jew, intellectually cultured, morally fervid-in all this a nature ready to be plenished from Mordecai's. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxxviii. 2. To furnish; provide (a dwelling) with furniture, etc.; stock (a farm) with cattle, horses, farm implements, etc. [Old Eng. and Scotch in both senses.] Al myhten tho same thinges betere and more plentevous ly ben couth in the mowth of the poeple. Chaucer , Boëthius, i. prose 5. plenteousne (plen'tē-us-nes), n. The state of being plenteous; abundance; copious supply; plenty. plentiful (plen'ti-fül), a. [ The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. 2. 202. Alcibiades education, and a plentiful fortune. a young man of noble birth, excellent Swift, Contests and Di ensions, ii. Can anybody remember when sensible men, and the right sort of men, and the right sort of women were plen tiful ? Emerson , Works and Days. 2. Yielding abundance; affording ample supply; fruitful. being plentiful; abundance. plentifyt (plen'ti-fi), v. t. [ plenty + -fy .] To make plenteous; enrich. For alms (like leva in) make our goods to rise, And God His owne with ble ings plentifies . Let rowling teares in pleny - tides oreflow, For lo e of England's second Cicero. pleochroic (plē-ō-krō'ik), a . [ πλέων , πλείων , more, + χρόα , color, + -ic .] Exhibiting pleochro- ism. The epithet includes dichroic and trichroic. Also pleochromatic, pleochroöus , polychroic.- Pleochroic halo or aureole, a spot within a mineral (for example, biotite) characterized by strong pleochroism. Such spots are frequentiy observed in sections when ex- amined under the microscope, and are usually immedi ately a ociated with microscopic inclusions. pleochroism (plē-ok'rō-izm), n. [ pleochro -ic + -ism .] In crystal . , the variation in color ob- served in some crystals when viewed in differ- ent directions, due to the fact that the rays hav- ing vibrations in different planes suffer absorp- tion in different degrees. In general, a uniaxial crys- tal may be dichroic , or have two axial colors, corresponding respectively to the ordinary ray, whose vibrations are trans- verse to the axis, and the extraordinary ray, with vibrations parallel to this axis; biaxial crystals may be trichroic , and the axial colors are generally taken as those determined by the absorption of the rays which are propagated by vibrations parallel to the three axes of elasticity. Tour- mal in is a striking example of a dichroic species, epidote and hornblende of trichroic species. A more general epi- thet for both is pleochroic. Mandeville , Travels, p. 152. pleochromatic (plē"ō-kro-mat'ik), a. [ πλείων , more, + χρώμα (τ-), color, + -ic.] Same as pleochroic . IMG:content-0415.png:[blocks in formation] They have great plenty of very large carp in this river. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 86. 2. Abundance of things nece ary for man; the state in which enough is had and enjoyed. It ne may han togidere al the plente of the lyf. Chaucer , Boëthius, v. prose 6. Ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord. Joel ii. 26. Thy lopp'd branches point Thy two sons forth; whose i ue Promises Britain peace and plenty . IMG:content-0416.png:[blocks in formation] pleochromatism (plē-ō-krōʻma-tizm), n. pleochromatic + -ism .] Same as pleochroism . pleochroöus (plē-ok'ro-us), a . [ pleochro - ic + -ous .] Same as pleochroic . pleodont (plē'ō-dont), a . [ ὀδούς (ὁδοντ-) = Ε. tooth .] Solid-toothed: op- posed to calodont . pleomastia (plē-ō-mas'ti-ä), n . [NL., πλέων , more, + μαστός , one of the breasts.] The presence of more than one nipple to one mam- mary gland. pleomazia (plē-ō-māʼzi-ä), n. [NL., πλέων , πλείων , more, + μαζός , Ionic and epic for μαστός , one of the breasts.] The presence of a greater number of mammary glands than is normal. pleomorphic (plē-ō-mor'fik), a . [ pleomorph - y + -ic .] Same as pleomorphous . E. R. Lankes- ter , Nature, XXXIII. 413. pleomorphism (plē-ō-morfizm), n. morph -y + -ism .] 1. Same as polymorphism, Nature , XXX. 433.-2. Same as pleiomorphism . IMG:content-0417.png:[blocks in formation] more: see plus .] In bot . , a term proposed by Nägel i for those aggregates of molecules which cannot be increased or diminished in size with- out changing their chemical nature, as dist in- guished from micellæ , or aggregates that can be πλέειν, πλεῖν , sail, swim.] 1. In Crustacea, abdomen: distinguished from cephalon (head) and percion (thorax). C. Spence Bate , Encyc. Brit., VI. 634.-2. The tail-spine or telson of some crustaceans, as the king-crab king-crab: so named by Owen, on the supposition that it represents the abdomen: correlated with tho race tron and cephaletron. pleonal (plēʻō-nal), a . [ pleon2 + -al .] Of or pertaining to the ple pleon or abdomen of a crusta- cean. [Rare.] IMG:content-0418.png:[blocks in formation] pleroma (plē-rō'mä), n . [NL., πλήρωμα , α filling up, πληρούν , fill up, πλήρης , full: see plenty.] 1. Fullne ; abundance; plenitude: in gnosticism , the spiritual world, or world of pleonasm (plē'ō-nazm), n . [= F. pléonasme = Sp. Pg. It. pleonasmo , Pg. It. pleonasmo , pleonasm us , Gr. light, including the body of eons. πλεονασμός, abundance, exaggeration, in gram. pleonasm, πλεονάζειν , be or have too much, abound. abound, , πλείων , more, compar. of πολύς , much: see plus .] 1. Redundancy of language; the use of more words than are nece ary to ex- pre an idea. Pleonasm may be justifiable when the intention is to present thoughts with particular perspi- cuity or force. The first surplusage the Greekes call Pleonasm us (I call him too full speech), and is no great fault: as if one should say, I heard it with mine eares, and saw it with mine eyes, as if a man could heare with his heeles, or see with his nose. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 264. dominal ribs are present. The skull has a fixed quadrate bone, one postorbital bar, and no free paroccipital; the vertebræ are amphicœlous, with neurocentral sutures, and only two of them compose a sacrum. The ribs are one- headed. The eyeball has no sclerotic ring of bones, and the teeth are socketed in a single row in both jaws. The order contains many genera of gigantic fish-like saurians from the Trias, Lias, and Chalk, whose affinities are with the chelonians, notwithstanding the wide difference in form. The order is also called Sauropterygia , but Plesio- sauria is its prior and proper name. See cut under Ple- plethoretic (pleth-ō-ret'ik), a. [ plethora + -etic , as in diuretic , etc.] Same as plethoric . plethoretical (pleth-ō-ret'i-kal), a . [ pletho- retic + -al .] Same as plethoric . plethoric (ple-thor'ik or pleth'ō-rik), a. [ πληθώρη , plethora: see plethora .] Having a full habit of body, or the ve els over- charged with fluids; characterized by plethora, in any sense. And late the nation found, with fruitle skill, Its former strength was but plethoric ill. plesiosaurian (plēsi-ō-sâ'ri-an), a. and n. [ Plesiosaur i a + -an.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the Plesiosaur i a ; plesiosauroid; sauropterygian. II. n. A member of the Plesiosaur i a ; a plesi- osaur. Plesiosauridæ (plēsi-ō-sâ'ri-dē), n . pl . [NL., Plesiosaur us + -idæ .] A family of gigantic animals represented by the genus Plesiosaur us and related forms, having both fore and hind limbs perfectly natatory. The pterygoids diverge plethorical (ple-thor'i-kal), a. [ plethoric + backward, and do not overlie the bas i sphenoid, and there -al .] Same as plethoric . are small infra-orbital vacuities in the palate. They lived plethorically (ple-thor'i-kal-i), adv . In a ple- Abraham had a plerophory that what was promised God beare), πλησίος , near, + σαῦρος , lizard.] A was able to perform. Barrow , Sermons, II. iv. ( Latham .) The plerophory or full a urance of faith. Plesiochelys (plē-si-ok'e-lis), n . πλησίος, near, + χέλυς , a tortoise.] An extinct genus of turtles, typical of the family Plesio- chelyidæ. plesiomorphic (plēsi-ō-môr'fik), a. [ plesio- morph-ous + -ic .] Same as plesiomorphous . plesiomorphism (plē"si-ō-morfizm), n. [ ple- siomorph - ous +-ism.] In crystal ., the relation of crystallized substances the forms of which closely resemble each other, but are not abso- lutely identical. IMG:content-0419.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] Skeleton of Plesiosaur us, with diagrams of the more important parts. H. humerus; R , U , radius and ulna; r, i , u , radiale, imtermedium, and ulnare of carpus; 1, 2, 3, distal carpalia; Mc , metacarpus; Ph , phalanges. C, dorsal vertebra, with R , ribs, and VO , VO , ventral o ific a tions: C, centrum; NA , neural arc he, left hind din femur: T , tibia; F ' , fibula; 1 , 1 , 1, tibiale, intermedium, and fibulare of tar- sus; 1, 2, 3, distal tarsal i a; Mt , metatarsus; Ph , phalanges. restricted to forms from the Upper Tria ic (Rhætic) and the Lia ic, as P. dolichodirus , with extremely long neck. plesiret, n. A Middle English variant of plea- IMG:content-0420.jpg:[blocks in formation] plet (plet), n. [Also plete , plitt ; pletu , a whip.] A whip, especially one of the form used by the Ru ian penal administration for the chastisement of refractory prisoners. There is another flagellator, however, called the plete , a whip of twisted hide, which is still retained at a few of the most distant Siberian prisons, and only for the most incorrigible, on whom irons, the birch, and other punish- ments have had no effect. Encyc . Brit ., XIX. 762. pletelt, v. A Middle English form of plead . plete2, n. See plet . pleteret, n. A Middle English form of pleader . plethora (pleth'ō-rä), n. [Formerly also pleth- ory ; = It. pletora , plethora , πλήθος , fullne , θειν , be or become full, πιμπλάναι , fill, πλήρης, L. plenus , full: see fulll , plenty .] 1. In pathol ., overfullne of blood; a redundant full- F. pléthore Sp. plétora = plétora = Pg. plethora Gr. πληθώρη , θώρη , full full- At the same time he is full and empty, bursting with a plethory, and consumed with hunger. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 910. absolutely dying from too much health. Your character at present is like a person in a plethora , Sheridan , School for Scandal, iv. 3. 2. Overfullne in any respect; super a bun- IMG:content-0421.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0422.png:[blocks in formation] pleugh, pleuch (plūch), n . andv. Scotch forms. of plow . pleugh-paidle (plūch 'pā"dl), n. A plow-staff. Scott , Old Mortality, xxxv. [Scotch.] pleural (plö'rä), n.; pl. pleuræ (-re). [NL., πλευρά , a rib, in pl. (also in sing.) the side, side of a triangle, a page of a book; cf. neut. IMG:content-0423.jpg:[graphic] the normal state these layers are in contact. See cut under thorax . - Parietal pleura. (a) Same as pleura costal is. (b) All the parts of the pleura except the pul- monary portion. - Pericardial pleura. See pericardial . - Pleura costal is, the costal part of the pleura, lining the walls of the thorax. - Pleura mediastinal is, that part of the pleura which enters into the formation of the med i- astinum. - Pleura pericardiac a. Same as pericardial pleura. Pleura phrenic a, that part of the pleura which invests the upper surface of the diaphragm; the dia- phragmatic pleura. - Pleura pul monal is, the pulmo- nary or visceral part of the pleura, investing the lungs.- Visceral pleura, the pleura pul monal is. pleura2, n. Plural of pleuron . pleuracanth (plöʻra-kanth), a . and n. [ Pleura canthus .] Same as pleuracanthoid . Pleura cant hidæ