| 单词 |
non-placet |
| 释义 |
‖ non placet, non-placet|nɒn ˈpleɪsɛt|
[L.: see non and placet.]
The Latin for ‘it does not please’ (scil. me, us), being the formula used in the older universities and in ecclesiastical assemblies in giving a negative vote upon a proposition; hence, as n., a negative vote in a legislative assembly of a university, etc., and † gen., an expression of dissent or disapproval.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 42 When I craued a finall resolution to my fatall passions, shee filde her..eyes full of furie, turned her backe, and shooke me off with a Non placet. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden G 2 b, Because I would cut his cloake with the Wooll, though Lilly and Nashe neuer so, cry Non placet thereat. 1620Brent tr. Sarpi Counc. Trent (1676) vi. 500 There were 57 who said Non placet. a1635Sibbes Christian's End (1639) v. 110 When flesh and bloud shall put up a petition,..give it a Non placet, deny the petition. 1880Daily News 12 Nov. 2/6 There voted on grace (a)—Placets, 145; non-placets, 185. 1888Orelli in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 208/1 The ‘placet of the temporal power for church affairs—when it occurs—also involves in this manner in itself the veto or non placet’.
attrib.1896Daily News 11 Mar. 4/4 One of the signatories of the non-placet notice.
Hence non-ˈplacet v. trans., to vote non placet upon (a proposition); to throw out (a measure).
1807Thomason in Memoirs of Simeon (1847) 239 On the whole, it seems to me that we should non placet the measure. 1843Whewell in Life (1881) 287 To-day I brought in a Grace with that view: it is non-placeted. 1870Daily News 25 Nov., The non-placeting of Graces without notice having been previously given. |
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