Definition of "plaudite"

" […] so that she would so shamefully fail in the last Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that in stead of a Plaudite she would deserve to be hissed off the Stage."

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84

S. Hierom charges Vigilantius, that howsoever he differed from him in opinion after, yet when he had heard him preach of the Resurrection before, he had received that Doctrine with Acclamation and Plaudites.

"John Donne and the theology of language": John Donne, P. G. Stanwood, Heather Anne Ross Asals, https://books.google.com/books?id=sItaAAAAMAAJ&q=plaudites&dq=plaudites&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DZeZVbGdOoLi-QHonp3gCA&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg