conclave
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
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.
Inflected forms:
form: conclaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conclaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conclaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conclaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conclaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The set of apartments in which cardinals are secluded while the process to elect a pope takes place.
pos: noun
examples: On Friday, St. John's Day, the 27th of December, the cardinals entered the conclave. […] Two hours before nightfall, the whole body met again in a chapel within the conclave, and after the bull of pope Julius [II] against simoniacal practices had been read, every cardinal, in the presence of the foreign ambassadors, took his corporal oath upon the Holy Evangelists to observe the bull to the best of his abilities.
gloss: A group of cardinals assembled to elect a new pope.
pos: noun
examples: Of the ten Cardinals now forming the Conclave, five voted for Cardinal Geoffredo Castiglione [later Pope Celestine IV], a Milanese, nephew to Urban III, and three for Cardinal Romano [da Porto].
Two years afterwards Pius IX died, and the Conclave met in the Vatican to choose his successor. Its deliberations were short.
gloss: A group of cardinals assembled to elect a new pope.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: [Thomas] VVol[sey]. […] Rome (the Nurſe of Iudgement) / Inuited by your Noble ſelfe, hath ſent / One generall Tongue vnto vs. This good man, / This iuſt and learned Prieſt, Cardnall Campeius [Lorenzo Campeggio], / VVhom once more, I preſent vnto your Highneſſe. / Kin[g Henry VIII]. And once more in mine armes I bid him vvelcome, / And thanke the holy Conclaue for their loues, / They haue ſent me ſuch a Man, I vvould haue vviſh'd for.
gloss: A closed assembly at which cardinals elect a pope.
pos: noun
examples: in conclave
papal conclave
The ſaid Duke Ferdinando [I de’ Medici] vvas reputed a vviſe and vvarie Prince, and it vvas a ſolid vviſdom rather than a Formall. He had been long a Cardinall, and at tvvo or three Conclaves (as they call them) or Elections of Popes.
[W]e find it once said of an eminent Cardinal, by reaſon of his great and apparent Likelihood to ſtep into St. Peter’s Chair, that in two Conclaves he went in Pope, and came out again Cardinal.
His [Keith O'Brien's] exit came as at least a dozen other cardinals tarnished with accusations that they had failed to remove priests accused of sexually abusing minors were among those gathering in Rome to prepare for the conclave to select a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
gloss: A closed assembly at which cardinals elect a pope.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The morrow after which was the thirde daye of the Counſayle, as the Archbiſhop was ſitting beneth in a conclaue with his felow Biſhops about him, conſulting together, the ſayde Biſhops labored by ſundry wayes and meanes, and with verie vehement perſwaſions and learned arguments to wyll him to obedience and to ſubmit himſelfe to the king, […]
The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim / In cloſe receſs and ſecret conclave ſat / A thouſand Demy-Gods on golden ſeat's, / Frequent and full.
Appalled the astonished conclave sate; / With stupid eyes, the men of fate / Gazed on the light inspired form, / And listened for the avenging storm; […]
Now you are all dispersed and scattered: no discussions, no committees, little correspondence—and you yourself are ever brooding and ever in conclave, with persons too who I know, for Stephen has told me so, are the preachers of violence: […]
Some of these [friends of Johnson], in 1764, formed themselves into a club, which gradually became a formidable power in the commonwealth of letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-maker and the pastry-cook.
No one knew that piece of country, and it was vain to expect that they could make the journey entirely without a contretemps of some kind or other. Therefore the safe return of the Roper party was the usual topic of our nightly conclaves in the verandah.
It appears that the subordinate conclave of which the deceased was a member was organized by a person who was recognized by the defendant as having full authority to organize and institute subordinate conclaves. A subordinate lodge or conclave was organized, into which, according to the contention of the plaintiff, the deceased was admitted as a charter member, […]
More than 2,500 of globalisation's movers and shakers gather for their annual four-day mountaintop conclave this week, aware that the world is still being shaken by the events of half a decade ago.
Still, it was the first real sign of succession planning — a Condé conclave, as one editor joked — and a reminder that Ms. Wintour, arguably the last link to the company’s glory years, will not be around forever.
gloss: A private chamber or room.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [W]e in Europe, (notvvithſtanding all the remote Diſcoueries, and Nauigations of this laſt Age) neuer heard any of the leaſt Inkling or Glimſe of this Iſland. […] [W]ee neuer heard tell of any Shipp of theirs, that had been ſeene to arriue vpon any ſhore of Europe; […] For the Situation of it (as his Lordſhip ſaid,) in the ſecret Conclaue of ſuch a vaſt Sea mought cauſe it.
[…] John Zonaras [Joannes Zonaras] […] vvriteth […] That the Interpreters of the Lavv [the translators of the Septuagint] vvere divided into couples, and that they vvere placed every one in a ſeveral Conclave: […]
[P]lacing the Caſes, Pots, &c. under this Shelter, vvhen either at the firſt Peeping out of the VVinter Concleave, or during the increaſing Heat of Summer, they ſo are ranged and diſpoſed, as to adorn a noble Area of a moſt magnificent Paradiſian Dining-Room to the Top of Hortulean Pomp and Bliſs, ſuperior to all the artificial Furniture of the greateſt Prince's Court.
[T]he Duchess has fitted up the little room out of her conclave that opens into the garden in the Gothic taste, and made it the prettiest cell you can imagine.
gloss: To participate in a closed, private, or secret meeting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [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.
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, […]
[N]oble Rivaulx' shrine, whose frequent tolling bells / Disturbed our holy conclaved monks in hours of fast and prayer, […]
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.
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.
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 […]
[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.
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.
gloss: Of a cardinal: to attend a closed assembly to elect a pope.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
"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."
Related words: clave
clavis
conclavist
enclave
Derived words: klonklave
conclaved
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: konklaaf
lang: Arabic
word: المجمع المغلق
lang: Armenian
word: կոնկլավ
roman: konklav
lang: Asturian
word: cónclave
lang: Azerbaijani
word: konklav
lang: Basque
word: konklabe
lang: Belarusian
word: канкла́ў
roman: kankláw
lang: Breton
word: konklav
lang: Bulgarian
word: конклав
roman: konklav
lang: Burmese
word: ပုပ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ပွဲ
roman: pup-ra.han:mang:kri: rwe:hkyaitanghmraukpwai:
lang: Catalan
word: conclave
lang: Catalan
word: conclau
lang: Czech
word: konkláve
lang: Danish
word: konklave
lang: Dutch
word: conclaaf
lang: Estonian
word: konklaav
lang: Finnish
word: konklaavi
lang: French
word: conclave
lang: Galician
word: conclave
lang: Georgian
word: კონკლავი
roman: ḳonḳlavi
lang: German
word: Konklave
lang: Greek
word: κονκλάβιο
roman: konklávio
lang: Hebrew
word: קונקלווה
lang: Hungarian
word: konklávé
lang: Indonesian
word: konklaf
lang: Italian
word: conclave
lang: Japanese
word: コンクラーヴェ
roman: konkurāvue
lang: Kapampangan
word: konklabe
lang: Kapampangan
word: pamantipun
lang: Kazakh
word: конклав
roman: konklav
lang: Korean
word: 콘클라베
roman: konkeullabe
lang: Latin
word: conclāve
lang: Latvian
word: konklāvs
lang: Lithuanian
word: konklava
lang: Lombard
word: conclav
lang: Malay
word: konklaf
lang: Malayalam
word: കോൺക്ലേവ്
roman: kōṇklēvŭ
lang: Mongolian
word: конклав
roman: konklav
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: konklave
lang: Persian
word: مجمع انتخاب پاپ
lang: Polish
word: konklawe
lang: Portuguese
word: conclave
lang: Punjabi
word: پاپائی جلسۂ انتخاب
lang: Romanian
word: conclav
lang: Russian
word: конкла́в
roman: konkláv
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: конкла́ва
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: konkláva
lang: Silesian
word: kůnklawe
lang: Sinhalese
word: කොන්ක්ලෙව්
roman: konklew
lang: Slovak
word: konkláve
lang: Slovene
word: konklave
lang: Sotho
word: konkleifi
lang: Spanish
word: cónclave
lang: Swahili
word: konklevu
lang: Swedish
word: konklav
lang: Tagalog
word: kongklabe
lang: Tamil
word: திருத்தந்தைத் தேர்தல்
roman: tiruttantait tērtal
lang: Thai
word: การประชุมเลือกสันตะปาปา
lang: Turkish
word: konklav
lang: Ukrainian
word: конкла́в
roman: konkláv
lang: Urdu
word: پاپائی جلسۂ انتخاب
lang: Uzbek
word: konklav
lang: Vietnamese
word: mật nghị hồng y
lang: Waray-Waray
word: konklave