Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the middle ages, a public assembly of all degrees of men, where the sovereign presided, usually summoned to consult upon great affairs of state; hence, a resolution taken by such an assembly; also, a penalty or fine, or a plea or suit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
- noun (Old Eng. Law) A court, or cause in court.
- noun (Law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
- noun UK, law, obsolete A court, or cause in court.
- noun law A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
Etymologies
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Nos es placitum pro capulus laxus is week quod primoris res primoris EGO have voco suus per suus primoris nomen. quam difficilis mos ut exsisto?
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Nos es placitum pro capulus laxus is week quod primoris res primoris EGO have voco suus per suus primoris nomen. quam difficilis mos ut exsisto?
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Nos es placitum pro capulus laxus is week quod primoris res primoris EGO have voco suus per suus primoris nomen. quam difficilis mos ut exsisto?
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Et si de mercatoribus dictaram terrarum numerus non inuenientur sufficiens, ponentur in inquisitione illi qui idonei inuenientur ibidem, & residij sint de alijs bonis hominibus & idoneis de locis in quibus placitum illud erit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ad placitum, are the characters real before mentioned, and words: although some have been willing by curious inquiry, or rather by apt feigning, to have derived imposition of names from reason and intendment; a speculation elegant, and, by reason it searcheth into antiquity, reverent, but sparingly mixed with truth, and of small fruit.
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The draughts and first laws of the game are positive, but how? merely ad placitum, and not examinable by reason; but then how to direct our play thereupon with best advantage to win the game is artificial and rational.
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Decretum Universitatis Parisiensis super gorgiasitate muliercularum ad placitum.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Decretum Universitatis Parisiensis super gorgiasitate muliercularum ad placitum.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This facilitates search, though it necessitates the cumbrous mode of reference adopted in the foot-notes to chapter, section, and placitum.
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Igitur in locum ambobus placitum [422] exercitus conveniunt; ibi fide data et accepta Jugurtha Bocchi animum oratione accendit: Romanes injustos, profunda avaritia, [423] communes omnium hostes esse; eandem illos causam belli cum Boccho habere quam secum et cum aliis gentibus, libidinem imperitandi, quis [424] omnia regna adversa sint; tum sese, [425] paulo ante Carthaginienses, item regem Persen, post, uti quisque opulentissimus videatur, ita Romanis hostem fore.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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