| 单词 | congé d'élire |
| 释义 | > as lemmascongé d'élire 6. congé d'élire [Anglo-Norman conge de eslire] : royal permission to a monastic body or cathedral chapter, to fill up a vacant see or abbacy by election.Henry VIII. assumed by statute the right of adding thereto ‘Letters Missive’, nominating the person to be elected. In ordinary parlance the congé d'élire has been taken, but incorrectly, to include the nomination. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > office of > permission to fill congé d'élire1614 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbot > [noun] > office of > permission to fill congé d'élire1614 1351 Act 25 Edw. III 4 A demander du Roi conge de eslir, & puis apres la eleccion daver son assent roial. 1534 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 20 The kynge our soveran Lorde..may graunt unto..the Deane and Chapytour..a lycence..to procede to eleccion of an Archibishop or Bishop of the See soo beyng voyde, with a letter myssyve conteynyng the name of the persone whiche they shall electe and chose.] 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 201. 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie iv. 11 The very dregges of lowest men..have no Elective votes; but..are as sure to find the Spirit in a conge d'eslire, as others not long since, in the Tridentine Post-mantile. a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 200 Conge des Lire went to Canterbury to elect Dr. Sancroft archbishop. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 154 Making an election, like the King by a congé d'elire, in virtue of its royal prerogative. 1848 Christian Remembrancer 15 233 To put the Congé d'élire, whose very essence is freedom of Election, and the Letters Missive, the only notion of which is direct immediate nomination, into the same official envelope. < as lemmas |
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