conge delire, conge deslire

[Fr. congé d'élire; Norm. Fr. congé d'eslire leave to elect. 1. Eng. Law, Ecclesiol., .: Leave given by means of a writ or license to a dean and chapter to elect a bishop when the see to which they belong is vacant. The tendency in Churches has almost always been to claim the liberty to elect their pastors without interference from the civil power; that power, on the contrary, has always, when it could, desired to exercise a determining voice in such elections. During the Middle Ages a protracted struggle on the subject took place between the succe ive Popes on the one hand and the civil rulers on the other for the right to nominate bishops. The contest broke out in the eleventh century. In the twelfth, the civil power being temporarily worsted in the contest, the dean and chapter, between A. D. 1125 and 1145, in most places gained the power of electing their bishop. In England the Constitutions of Clarendon in 1164 accorded them this right or privilege, but retained for the sovereign the Libertmed on Magna Charta in 1215. By 25 Henry of confirming the election, and the right was VIII., pa ed in A. D. 1535, when a vacancy arises in an archbishopric or in a bishopric the king sends the dean and chapter a congé d'elire, accompanied by a mi ive directing them whom to choose. If they delay their choice more than twelve days, or select some one else than the individual named in the mi ive, they become liable to a premunire. 2. Fig.: A nominal but not a real permi ion to choose. "A woman, when she has made her own choice, for form's sake, sends a congé d'élire to her friends."- Specta tor, No. 475. IMG:content-0583.png:[blocks in formation] *2. Figuratively : (1) To make to feel or run cold without actually causing to freeze. "Seeing too much sadne hath congeal'd your blood, And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."" Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, Induct., ii. (2) To prevent from appearing liquid; to hold back from dripping in a liquid manner. """Tis said, at times the sullen tear would start, But Pride congeal'd the drop within his ee." Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , i. 6. (3) Kept from the fervor of pa ion. "This precious Margarite that thou seruest, sheweth it self disc ended by nobley of vertue, from his heauenliche dewe, nourished and congeled in mekene e, that mother of all vertues."-Chaucer: Testament of Love, bk. ii. B. In trans.: To freeze, to pa from the liquid into the solid state through the operation of cold. "When water congeals , the surface of the ice is smooth and level, as the surface of the water was before."-Burnet: Theory.