Vote of assent

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Placet is a fictional planet that appeared in the science fiction short story "Placet is a Crazy Place" by Fredric Brown , first published in the May 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . Placet is composed of both ordinary and heavy matter. The core ...

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

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n. 1 A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc. 2 The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.