Crossword-Solution: ELIRE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The king's _congè d'elire_ was issued, and God's holy vicar the Bishop of ***** himself was translated.

Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written _Paradise Lost_ should write such poor sonnets: "Milton, madam, was a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones." A gentleman having said that a _congé d'elire_ has not, perhaps, the force of a command, but may be considered only as a strong recommendation.

The secular and Parliamentary origin of praemunire and conge d' elire were less notorious and more disagreeable subjects.

When a Bishop dies, or is translated, the sovereign grants a license, called a _conge d'elire_, to the Dean and Chapter of the vacant see to elect the person, whom by his letters missive he has appointed.

The King, in order to keep the temporalities the longer, often refused his "_congé d'elire_," without which an election was invalid by the civil law.