plenary
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English plenarie, plenarye, from Late Latin plēnārius, from Latin plēnus (“full”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpliːnəɹi/[1]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpliːnəɹi/, /ˈplɛnəɹi/[2]
- Rhymes: -iːnəɹi, -ɛnəɹi
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective edit
plenary (comparative more plenary, superlative most plenary)
- Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
- (theology or law) Complete; full; entire; absolute.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
- The method of treating a subject should be plenary or full.
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Translations edit
fully attended
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Noun edit
plenary (plural plenaries)
- plenary session
- After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary.
- (pedagogy) Part of a lesson, usually at or towards the end, designed to review or evaluate the learning that has taken place.
- 2013, Richard English, Maths and ICT in the Primary School: A Creative Approach[4], →ISBN, page 30:
- During the plenary the teacher wanted to consolidate this by getting pupils to use and apply what they had learned and also to discuss the calculating strategies they would use in different situations.
References edit
- ^ http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/plenary?view=uk
- ^ “Archived copy”, in Yahoo Dictionary[1], 2010 December 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 19 October 2011