Dictionary entry

Placet

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖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.