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plenipo, n.|ˈplɛnɪpəʊ|
Colloquial shortening of plenipotentiary.
c1687Dryden Let. to Etherege 12 And both to wives and husbands show The vigour of a plenipo. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 36. 230 His Envoys and Plenipoes come over publickly. 1823Byron Juan vi. xcv, Without the aid of prince or plenipo. 1858O. W. Holmes Ant. Breakf.-t. xi, I would, perhaps, be Plenipo,—But only near St. James.
Hence ˈplenipo v. intr., to act as plenipotentiary.
1890S. J. Duncan Soc. Departure (1891) 120 A certain foreign minister who returned from special plenipoing. |