conclave

n. போப்பாண்டவரைத் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கக் கத்தோலிக்க கருதினால்மார் கூடியிருக்கும் அறை, போப்பாண்டவரைத தேர்ந்தெடுக்கும் உரிமையுடைய கருதினால்மார் குழு, தனிக் கூட்டுக்குழு.

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Con"clave ( or ; 277), n. Etym: [F., fr. L. conclave a room that may locked up; con- + clavis key. See Clavicle.] 1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope. 2. The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South. 3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.