Definition of Concleve
Conclave, properly the room, generally in the Vatican, where the
cardinals are confined under lock and key while electing a Pope.
- Wikipedia
Con"clave (? or ?; 277), n. [F.,
fr. L. conclave a room that may locked up; con- +
clavis key. See Clavicle.] 1.
The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the
Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in
choosing a pope.
2. The body of cardinals shut up in the
conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of
cardinals.
It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent
likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two
conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
South.
3. A private meeting; a close or secret
assembly.
The verdicts pronounced by this conclave
(Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all
London.
Macaulay.
To be in conclave, to be engaged in a
secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of,
persons.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
- The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals
It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. — South?
- A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. — William Macaulay
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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