plenartyn.

1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 291/1 Hit be lefull to his Patron to make newe Presentation, not withstondyng the plenerte of hyme be vi moneths.

a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 197 But against the King plenartie is accounted from the time of induction, and not before.

1695 E. Stillingfleet Disc. Bonds Resignation of Benefices 60 The Incumbent could not be removed..and Plenarty generally was a good Plea in a Quare Impedit.

1700 R. Brady Continuation of Compl. Hist. Eng. 310 In these..Presentments, as also of those made in the Vacancies of Arch-Bishopricks, Bishopricks, a Plenarty, or that the Church was full.

1791 Blackstone's Comm. (ed. 11) III. xvi. 243 When the clerk was once instituted..the church became absolutely full: so the usurper by such plenarty, arising from his own presentation, became in fact seised of the advowson.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 3) 111/2 Avoidance. In Ecclesiastical Law, signifies the condition of a benefice when void of an incumbent, and is opposed to plenarty.

1889 Dublin Rev. Oct. 324 The Archbishop..sent one of his clerks to govern the vacant see and receive all the fees which during the plenarty had been paid to the clerks of the bishop deceased.

1928 Eng. Hist. Rev. 43 513 It was declared that plenarty was no bar against him when he claimed a presentation in the right of another.

1966 Speculum 41 226 Exceptions of plenarty in possessory actions pertained to ecclesiastical courts.

1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 27 All ages and people by a plenarty of consent.

1670 W. Lucy Treat. Nature of Minister xiii. 263 They being enabled with this plenarty of power to give others that blessing, they only gave it.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. v. 88 In the Body of Christ..dwells the whole Plenarty and Fulness of the Godhead.