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Umbria, eighteen protests against the various laws and regulations of the new Government on ecclesiastical matters: against civil marriage, the suppression of the religious orders and the inhuman cruelty of their oppressors, the "Placet" and "Exequatur" in ecclesiastical nominations, military service for ecclesiastics, and the confiscation of church property.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Articles ", it insisted upon the" Placet ", or previous approval of publication, for all papal documents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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“Placet!” squeaked Jack, who thought himself at the last gasp, and gulped down full three-quarters of the goblet which
Westward Ho! 2007
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Gill's first exercise in rendering Maritain into his own terms was his 1925 essay, Id Quod Visum Placet – the title taking up Aquinas's definition of beauty which, as we have seen, Maritain had made his own.
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Placet igitur eos dimitti et augere exercitum Catilinae?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Both, during the same year, conceive and execute the idea of setting to music the lyrics of Mallarmé entitled "Soupir" and "Placet futile."
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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The Placet was rigorously enforced, The censures of bishops against laymen incurred by obedience to the state laws were annulled,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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After stating that such persons are to be allowed to have the necessaries of life and that they are to be at liberty to go out of the church to relieve nature, the statute continues as follows: "Placet etiam Domino Regi, ut latrones vel appellatores quandocunque voluerint possint sacerdotibus sua facinora confiteri: sed caveant confessores ne erronice hujusmodi appellatores informent".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The Placet was even extended to ancient papal Bulls, and the principle was established that concessions of an ecclesiastical nature, not made or assented to by the king, could be revoked at pleasure by the same king or by his successors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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She was then fifty-five years old, and keen memories of 1741 and of her young life must have stirred the trembling pen as she wrote on it: "_Placet_, because so many great and learned men wish it; but when I have been long dead, people will see what must come from the violation of everything that until now has been deemed holy and right."
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