||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.