Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
miserere , 2. - noun plural In Roman law, the lower seats where the judices and inferior magistrates sat in judgment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Arch.) One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See
Illust. ofstall .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A projecting ledge on the
stalls in achurch where persons might lean whilst standing during prayers;misericord .
Etymologies
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Originates 1695–1705 from Latin subsellia (low seat or bench), from sub- (under) + sella (seat).
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Examples
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Each of these stalls retains the _subsellium_ or _miserere_, which, hinged at the back, turns up and discloses a small ledge beneath supported by carving, which ledge is supposed to have been used by the aged monks to rest on during the first long office of the Benedictines, which lasted four hours.
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