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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conclave \Con"clave\ (? or ?; 277), n. [F., fr L. conclave a room that may locked up con- + clavis key. See {Clavicle}.] 1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope. 2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence 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. --South. 3. 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. --Macaulay. {To be in conclave}, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of persons. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conclave n : a confidential or secret meeting
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