plenal

comparative more plenal · superlative most plenal

1. obsoletefull; complete

   The greatest thing, necessarily including all other things, however plenal within itself, could not but be empty in respect to their fulness.

   1902, Alfred H. Lloyd, “A Study in the Logic of the Early Greek Philosophy”, in The Monist, volume 12, page 407

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   If the orang dentition (see fig. 9) be taken as representing a mean or plenal degree of development, then the gorilla's represents a supra-plenal phase, and the chimpanzee's the infra-plenal phase.

   1913, Arthur Keith, “Problems relating to the Teeth of the Earlier Forms of Prehistoric Man”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 113

2. Pertaining to a hypothetical substance that fills all the voids in the universe.

   There is thus a relative motion between the earth and the plenal fluid touching it.

   2001, Julian B. Barbour, The Discovery of Dynamics

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   One physical advantage which Russell claims for the plenal theory, though again without full conviction, is a solution to the antinomy of absolute motion:

   1991, Nicholas Griffin, Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship, page 223