\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.