CONCLAMATIO, in antiquity, a shout raised by those present at burning the dead, before they fell fire.
Conclave || Concord. fire to the funeral pile. See SHOUT. The word was also applied to the signal given to the Roman soldiers to decamp, whence the expression conclavare vasa; and conclavari arma, was a signal for battle. It was likewise used for a practice of calling to a person deceased three times by his name; and when no reply was returned, they thus expressed his decease, conclavatum est. Whence the same term was afterwards applied to the cessation of the Roman empire.