conclave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋ-/
ipa: /ˈkɑnˌkleɪv/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋ-/
Forms: form: conclaves
form: conclaving
form: conclaved
form: conclaved
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
The noun is derived from Late Middle English conclave (“private chamber; (Roman Catholicism) private room where election of the Pope takes place; meeting held for this purpose”), borrowed from Middle French conclave (modern French conclave), or directly from its etymon Latin conclāve (“chamber, room; enclosed space that can be locked; dining hall”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) (combining form of cum (“(along) with”)) + clāvis (“key”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“(noun) crook, hook; peg; (verb) to close”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [N]or […] were a group of the miserably destitute ever discovered conclaved gravely in the committee-room, where the Board of Directors are usually occupied in breaking hearts—while the said board were hammering might and main in the yard, where the miserably destitute are usually occupied in breaking stones.
ref: 1840 May 1, Lynx [pseudonym], “Being an Anecdotal Introduction to the Third”, in The Comic Novel or Downing St. and the Days of Victoria, […], number IV, London: H. Bailliere, […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: That Mr. [Frederick Apthorp] Paley is no impassionate member of the Camden Brotherhood, as conclaved at Cambridge,—no luke-warm laggard either in his enthusiastic admiration of Middle-Aged Gothicisms, or in his derisive and unworthy deprecation of "Classic Christianisms," will be immediately inferred from the following passage, […]
ref: 1847, “A Manual of Gothic Architecture. By F. A. Paley, M.A. With Seventy Illustrations. John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. [book review]”, in The Magazine of Science and School of Arts: Intended to Illustrate the Most Useful, Novel, and Interesting Parts of Natural History and Experimental Philosophy, Artistical Processes, Ornamental Manufactures and the Arts of Life, volume IX, London: W. Brittain, →OCLC, page 67, column 1:
text: [N]oble Rivaulx' shrine, whose frequent tolling bells / Disturbed our holy conclaved monks in hours of fast and prayer, […]
ref: 1881, Adra [pseudonym; Edward Fitch], “Calder Abbey: A Legend of the Brothers There”, in Legends of Lakeland, Scarborough, Yorkshire: S. W. Theakston & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXIV, page 86:
text: We have learned during the past week that a report of a committee to suggest reorganization of a tariff association is not a source of reorganization alone. It is also a source of as much mysterious head-shaking and secret conclaving as if the esteemed and respectable members of the committee were perpetrators of dark, dank deeds.
ref: 1899 January 5, “The Week”, in The Chronicle: A Weekly Insurance Journal, volume LXIII, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Chronicle Company, […], →OCLC, page 37, column 1:
text: The tenants, conclaving together of an evening on doorsteps, had come to the conclusion that the Universal Thrift Club was the very contrivance which they lacked for years.
ref: 1911 February 23, Arnold Bennett, “His Burglary”, in The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Methuen’s Colonial Library), 2nd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published February 1911, →OCLC, section V, page 148:
text: The Shrine organization, which staged a similar pageant in 1951 when last they conclaved here, departed from usual policy when it announced this week that the public would be admitted to the spectacle […]
ref: 1953 July 11, “[Frank] Wirth to Produce Big Show for Shriners’ N.Y. Confab”, in Roger S. Littleford Jr., editor, The Billboard: The Amusement Industry’s Leading Newsweekly, volume 65, number 28, Cincinnati, Oh.: Roger S. Littleford Jr.; William D. Littleford, →OCLC, page 50, column 3:
text: [A]fter we had gone to press with a succession of annual volumes, [R. Scott] Appleby, Gabriel Almond, emeritus at Stanford, and Emanuel Sivan from Israel, conclaved on Almond's patio and shook, sifted, and ordered common features, coming up with grids that appear in our fifth volume, Fundamentalisms Comprehended.
ref: 2001, Martin E[mil] Marty, “Conclusion”, in Santosh C. Saha, Thomas K. Carr, editors, Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries (Contributions to the Study of Religion; 65), Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 201:
text: So Nit stood guard, pretending to be busy but keeping a lookout for the nuns, who were absent today, conclaving over who would take over Sister Patricia Margaret's stewardship.
ref: 2002 February, Kay Kenyon, chapter 15, in Maximum Ice (A Bantam Spectra Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: To participate in a closed, private, or secret meeting.
examples: text: At Cardinal Verdi's urging the College of Cardinals at last conclaved behind locked doors, slipping into the heavily guarded Sistine Chapel through the underground tunnels for their deliberations.
ref: 2002, Brent Dorian Carpenter, “Conclave”, in Man of the Cloth, [Bloomington, Ind.]: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 100:
text: "Brothers, we have a Pope!" Bennelli exclaimed. "But I request that you remain conclaved, until I consult the man whom we elected. I shall return within the hour."
ref: 2007, Peter M. Sciarrotta, “Seeing is Believing”, in The Seven Angels of the Apocalypse, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Of a cardinal: to attend a closed assembly to elect a pope.
Derived terms: word: conclaved