placit
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin placitum. Doublet of plea.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
placit (plural placits)
- (obsolete) A decree or determination; a dictum.
- 20 January, 1657, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. E. Thurland
- the placits and opinions of other philosophers
- 20 January, 1657, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. E. Thurland
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “placit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)