placet [
'plesɛt]
Placet \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.