- (n.) 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.
- (a.) Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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