1807 Thomason in W. Carus Mem. C. Simeon (1847) 239 On the whole, it seems to me that we should non placet the measure.

1843 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 287 To-day I brought in a Grace with that view: it is non-placeted.

1868 Standard 3 June 2/3 A grace proposing the adoption of the recommendations of the syndicate..was non-placeted, but carried by 40 placets to 35 non-placets.

1900 Morning Post 7 Feb. 8/2 Notice has been given that Recommendation II. of the Special Board for Mathematics..will be non-placeted.

1913 A. E. Shipley ‘J.’ App. II. 330 This proposal produced a sheaf of fly-sheets, but although it was non-placeted, it was carried.

2004 V. Morgan Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. iii. 70 The regents non-placeted all the nominations until they achieved a body that they thought would approve of Cartwright's degree.

1870 Daily News 25 Nov. The non-placeting of Graces without notice having been previously given.

1906 Baron Kelvin Let. 12 Nov. in S. V. Thompson Life (1910) II. xxv. 1133 I do not understand the state of affairs in respect to placeting and non-placeting.

2005 P. McCullough Lancelot Andrewes Notes 332 One of the presbyterian ringleaders in the university..included as part of his campaign of pro-puritan civil disobedience..the non-placeting of motions in the University Senate.

1572 in J. Lamb Coll. Lett. Corpus Christi Coll., Cambr. (1838) 382 Otherwyse the proctors and scrutators maye say placet and non placet at their pleasure, whatsoever all the residue shall privately saye in their eares.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. G2^v Because I would cut his cloake with the Wooll, though Lilly and Nashe neuer so, cry Non placet thereat.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent vi. 534 There were 57 who said Non placet.

1764 St. James's Chron. 10 Apr. Before the two Proctors gave their own Votes, the Numbers in both their Lists stood thus: Placet—107 Non Placet—107.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 9/2 It would have been a much more graceful thing on the part of those members of the senate who voted non-placet, if they had been contented with absenting themselves from the congregation.

1870 Harper's Mag. Dec. 28 The bishops from the United States and British America who voted non placet were Connolly, Archbishop of Halifax, Bishops Rogers, of Chatham, Bourget, of Montreal, [etc.].

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/1 Two prelates only had the courage of their convictions. and voted non placet.

1960 N. Sykes in J. P. T. Bury New Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1964) X. iv. 98 The council took its penultimate vote,..in which 451 bishops voted placet, eighty-eight non-placet and sixty-two gave conditional approval.

1987 Independent 18 June 5/2 46 dons..are calling on all members of the university to vote non placet—not content—in the Senate House today.

1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 19 July 325 Even junior lecturers are saying whether they will vote placet or non placet.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D4 When I craued a finall resolution to my fatall passions, shee filde her..eyes full of furie, turned her backe, and shooke me off with a Non placet.

a1635 R. Sibbes Christians End (1639) v. 110 When flesh and bloud shall put up a petition,..give it a Non placet, deny the petition.

1775 J. Woodforde Diary 26 Oct. (1924) I. 169 The first time there were about three Non Placets—none the second time.

1837 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 181 If a non placet is put in by a member of the non-regent house, the vote is then taken.

1880 Daily News 12 Nov. 2/6 There voted on grace (a)—Placets, 145; non-placets, 185.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 208/1 The ‘placet of the temporal power for church affairs—when it occurs—also involves in this manner in itself the veto or non placet’.

1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXI. 399/2 His nomination as proctor was rejected by the senate on 1 Oct. 1860, the nonplacets being 29 and the placets 26.

1986 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 58 33 Cornford offered his own breakdown of academics:..Non-Placets (who affect discontent, but find objections to every proposed reform), Adulamites (grantsmen), and Young Men in a Hurry.

2008 I Murphy In Season, out of Season (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Chicago) iii. 86 The statement on Religious Liberty,..including church-state relations, generated 70 Non Placets.

1863 H. Sidwick Let. in Mem. (1906) 96 We, the non-placeters, shall be in a miserable minority.

2011 S. Glendinning Derrida ii. 11 For the non placeters ‘the Derrida affair’ was playing out..a familiar drama of British letters in its relation to ‘Continental’ contacts.