Definition of Placet

1. n. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.

Definition of Placet

1. a vote of assent [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placet

placentious
placentitis
placentography
placentoma
placentophagy
placentotherapy
placepot
placepots
placer
placer miner
placer mining
placers
places
placeseeker
placeshifting
placet (current term)
placets
placid
placider
placidest
placidities
placidity
placidly
placidness
placidnesses
placified
placifies
placify
placifying
placing

Literary usage of Placet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"When the bull In cana Domini (qv) was published in Spain without royal approbation, Philip II. retaliated with most stringent measures; and the placet was ..."

2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"t, ut considèrent, etc., they determined: placet enim esse ... it is agreed: ut ipsi auctori huius disciplinée placet, as the founder holds: nt doctissimi- ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The two bishops who on 18 July had voted non placet advanced to the papal throne at the same session and acknowledged their acceptance of the truth thus ..."

4. Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin Mss. of the Early by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1915)
"98. placet, etc. When contraction came into fashion the suspension p! 'placet,' 'placuit' became plet, plit, etc. But these Notae Juris do not, I believe, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... or by college lectures to members of particular colleges or groups of colleges. placet" or oppose the graces offered to the senate by the council. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"When the bull In cana Domini (qv) was published in Spain without royal approbation, Philip II. retaliated with most stringent measures; and the placet was ..."

7. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"t, ut considèrent, etc., they determined: placet enim esse ... it is agreed: ut ipsi auctori huius disciplinée placet, as the founder holds: nt doctissimi- ..."

8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The two bishops who on 18 July had voted non placet advanced to the papal throne at the same session and acknowledged their acceptance of the truth thus ..."

9. Notae Latinae: An Account of Abbreviation in Latin Mss. of the Early by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1915)
"98. placet, etc. When contraction came into fashion the suspension p! 'placet,' 'placuit' became plet, plit, etc. But these Notae Juris do not, I believe, ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... or by college lectures to members of particular colleges or groups of colleges. placet" or oppose the graces offered to the senate by the council. ..."

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