A conclavist was a personal aide of a cardinal present in a papal conclave. The term is sometimes used to refer to all present with a conclave, including the cardinal-electors, but is more properly applied only to the non-cardinals. Conclavists played an important historical role in the negotiations of papal elections and in the evolution of secre...
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• (n.) One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.
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Con'cla`vist noun [ Confer French
conclaviste , Italian
conclavista .] One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.
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either of two persons who attend upon a cardinal at a conclave, one usually being an ecclesiastical secretary and the other a personal servant.
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