See Also: plenarty(dictionary)
PLENARTY, eccl(law)

Don Quixote (oh) and plenarty (iou)


Don Quixote (oh)



the main character in the humorous book Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote wants to be a knight like the characters he admires in old stories, but when he tries to copy their adventures and behaviour, he makes many stupid mistakes.
someone who is determined to change what is wrong, but who does it in a way that is silly or not practical
-see also quixotic

plenarty (iou)



plenarty noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman plenerte, Old French plenierete fullness, from plen(i)er complete: see -TY1.]
Ecclesiastical Law. The fact of a church living's being occupied; the state of having an incumbent. LME.
Completeness, fullness. rare. M17-E18.