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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
plenipotentiary .
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Examples
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It happened too, inevitably, that the critics, in the plenipotential authority which they exercised, often assumed as indispensable requisites of the drama, or epopeia, circumstances, which, in the great authorities they quoted, were altogether accidental and indifferent.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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Pope Ganganelli is said to have expressed a whimsical opinion that all the books in the world might be reduced to six thousand volumes in folio -- by epitomising, expurgating, and destroying whatever the chosen and plenipotential committee of literature should in their wisdom think proper to condemn.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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It happened too, inevitably, that the critics, in the plenipotential authority which they exercised, often assumed as indispensable requisites of the drama, or epopeia, circumstances, which, in the great authorities they quoted, were altogether accidental and indifferent.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Walter Scott 1801
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(There are two p's, observe, in plenipotential; and so there are in plum-pudding.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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(There are two p's, observe, in plenipotential; and so there are in plum-pudding.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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"There are two p's, observe, in plenipotential; and so there are in plum-pudding.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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