congé d'élire
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French congé d’élire (“leave to choose”).
Noun
[edit]congé d'élire (uncountable)
- (Anglicanism) A licence from the Crown in England issued under the great seal to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of a diocese, authorizing them to elect a bishop or archbishop upon the vacancy of any episcopal see in England.
- 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 25, note 2:
- The speed was such that the congé d’élire for Worcester arrived before the funeral of the dead bishop.