Placet

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Placet \Pla"cet\, n. [L. placet it pleases.]
     1. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a
        university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.
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     2. The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an


        ecclesiastical ordinance. --Shipley.
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              The king . . . annulled the royal placet. --J. P.
                                                    Peters.
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