Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
placitum .
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Examples
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The placita was a labor of love by Tony Carrillo, who created a placita committee that spent three years raising money for the project by holding concerts and selling concrete pavers for $350 apiece.
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Monsignor Thomas Cahalane, pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, called the placita and its band shell a "tall and colorful expression" of the person that it's named for
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Cuius rei causa meritò potest æstimari, quod non sustinuit Deus magnos peccatores longo tempore permanere in terra sibi tam placita, et tam sancta.
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Inter eos quasi nulla placita sunt, et quamuis multum inebrientur, tamen in ebrietate sua nunquam contendunt.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Cum itaque in nostra nunc habeatur Potestate, et ipse semper tua molestauit, et turbationis operam pr鎠titerit, ea qu� pr鎚issimus, nobilitati tu� insinuare curauimus: scientes ea dilectioni tu� bene placita existere, animo tuo vberrimam importare l鎡itiam.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Inter eos quasi nulla placita sunt: nullus alium spernit, sed iuuat et promouet quantum congru� potest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But yet it holdeth not in religion alone, but in many knowledges, both of greater and smaller nature, namely, wherein there are not only posita but placita; for in such there can be no use of absolute reason.
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Inter eos quasi nulla placita sunt, et quamuis multum inebrientur, tamen in ebrietate sua nunquam contendunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So in human laws there be many grounds and maxims which are placita juris, positive upon authority, and not upon reason, and therefore not to be disputed: but what is most just, not absolutely but relatively, and according to those maxims, that affordeth a long field of disputation.
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Cuius rei causa merit� potest 鎠timari, quod non sustinuit Deus magnos peccatores longo tempore permanere in terra sibi tam placita, et tam sancta.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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