[a. F. conclaviste, It. conclavista, f. conclave: see above and -IST.]
† 1. One of the cardinals in conclave. Obs.
[1598. Florio, Conclauista, a fellow chooser of a Pope, or one that is admitted in the Conclaue.
1616. Brent, trans. Sarpi’s Hist. Counc. Trent (1676), 518. The Pope, considering that the Conclavists of account remain at Rome.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Conclavist, one of those Cardinals that meet in the conclave for the election of the Pope.
2. One who attends on a cardinal in conclave.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1670. Lond. Gaz., No. 437/2. The Conclavist or Chamber-keeper to Cardinal Albici was lately put out of the Conclave.
1691. W. B., Hist. Rom. Conclave, iii. 9. Every Cardinal brings into the Conclave along with him a Conclavist and two Servants.
1776–88. Gibbon, Decl. & F., lxvi. 129, note (Seager). The Cardinals knocked at his door; but his Conclavist refused to interrupt the studies of Bessarion.
1883. Addis & Arnold, Cath. Dict., s.v. Conclave, Each Cardinal is allowed to have two members of his household in personal attendance upon him [in the conclave]; these are called conclavists.
