conclave

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A private meeting; a close or secret assembly

The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. — Thomas Babington Macaula.

The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals

It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. — Robert South.

The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope
{n} an assembly of cardinal
Similar to the government of a totalitarian state
(2 syl ) A set of rooms, all of which are entered by one common key (Latin, con clavis) The word is applied to the little deal cells erected in some large apartment for the cardinals who meet to choose a new Pope, because the long gallery of the Vatican between the cells and the windows of the palace is common ground to all the conclavists The assembly itself is, by a figure of speech, also called a conclave
A conclave is a meeting at which the discussions are kept secret. The meeting which is held to elect a new Pope is called a conclave. a private and secret meeting (, from com- ( COM-) + clavis ). In the Roman Catholic church, the assembly of cardinals gathered to elect a new pope and the system of strict seclusion to which they submit. From 1059 the election became the responsibility of the cardinals. When, after the death of Clement IV (1268), the cardinals dithered for more than two years, the local magistrate locked them in the episcopal palace and fed them only bread and water until they elected Gregory X. The system of meeting in closed conclave was codified in 1904 by Pius X. Voting is by secret ballot; one ballot is held on the first afternoon of the conclave and four on each subsequent day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, until a new pope is chosen. In 1996 John Paul II declared that, after 30 ballots, the traditional requirement of a two-thirds majority plus one for the election of a pope could be superseded, at the discretion of the cardinals, by election by a simple majority. Ballots are burned in a stove after each vote, and the smoke produced by their burning, which issues from a special pipe through a window, indicates to the crowd assembled in St. Peter's Square whether a new pope has been elected: if there is a new pope, the smoke will be white; if no majority has yet been reached, the smoke will be black. In addition, bells will be rung to confirm the signal. Additives are mixed with the ballots to ensure the proper colour of the smoke
a confidential or secret meeting
n Former name for the Lord's Believers
The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals
{i} private meeting; meeting of cardinals to elect a pope (Catholicism)

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