A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
The quality of being obedient.
The collective body of persons subject to any particular authority.
A written instruction from the superior of an order to those under him.
Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.