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sede vacante|ˈsiːdiː vəˈkæntiː|
[L., ‘the seat being vacant’; sēde abl. sing. of sēdēs seat.]
‖1. Eccl. In the Latin sense, as advb. phrase: During the vacancy of an episcopal see.
1535Cranmer in Strype Memor. App. xiv. (1694) 20 My Predecessor visisted the Dioces of Winchester after the decease of my L. Cardinal, as he did al other Diocesses Sede Vacante. 1572Act 14 Eliz. c. 7 Preamble, Under Collectors of the Tenths and Subsidies of the Cleargye appointed by..Deanes and Chapters (Sede vacante). a1900J. W. Legg Ecclesiol. Ess. 77 We have abundance of documents in Wilkins drawn up sede vacante.
¶b. allusively.
1608Middleton Fam. Love ii. C 1 b, But yet I must not let fall my suite with mistrisse Purge, least (Cede vacanti) my friend Gudgin ioyne issue.
2. Used as n.: The vacancy of a see or seat.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xxvii. (Arb.) 69 In time of Sede vacante, when merry conceited men listed to gibe & iest at the dead Pope. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. 249 The Ceremony of a Sede Vacante. 1783H. Walpole Let. to Mann 2 Mar., It is not quite new in this country..to see a sede vacante: here, I call it an Inter-ministerium.
allusively.1711Addison Spect. No. 72 ⁋4 It is a Maxim in this Club That the Steward never dies; for..no Man is to quit the great Elbow-chair..'till his Successor is in a Readiness to fill it; insomuch that there has not been a Sede vacante in the Memory of Man. |