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Conge   Listen
noun
Conge  n.  (Formerly written congie)  
1.
The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal. "Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her congé?"
2.
The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy. "The captain salutes you with congé profound."
3.
(Arch.) An apophyge.
Congé d'élire (Eccl.), the sovereign's license or permission to a dean and chapter to choose as bishop the person nominated in the missive.





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"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books



... preyed like an insect that ungratefully poisons the flower from which it has sucked the honey. This woman, driven to bay at last by his neglect and effrontery, had roused the scattered forces of her pride and had given him his conge—and he had been looking about for a fresh victim when he met Innocent. She was a complete novelty to him, and stimulated his more or less jaded emotions,—he found her quaint and charming as a poet's dream ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... qu'il ne leur donneroit conge de se departir jusques a ce qu'ils y eussent donne ordre." Letter of the Sieur du Mortier, French amb. at Rome, to the Bp. of Rennes, Aug. 9, 1561, apud Le Laboureur, Additions to Castelnau, i. ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... N[ewcast]le(59) seems to have gained strength and life since that manly resolution which he took last week of being no longer a Minister of this country. Let what would happen, he has given a conge to his friends to do what they will, and it shall not be looked upon as desertion. That is undoubtedly the most capital simpleton that ever the caprice of fortune placed in the high offices which he filled, and ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue


Words linked to "Conge" :   bow down, molding, congee, moulding, liberation, firing, bow, license, sacking, permit, architecture, release


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