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.
2.
The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
Shipley.
The king . . . annulled the royal placet.
J. P. Peters.
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