Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Conclave

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CONCLA'VE. A general name, applied indiscriminately to any room or apartment in a house which is not a public passage room, but might be locked with a key, whether a dining-room, bed-room, &c. Festus, s. v. Ter. Eun. iii. 5. 35. Id. Heaut. v. 1. 29. Cic. Rosc. Am. 23. Id. Or. ii. 86. Vitruv. vi. 3. 8.