Meaning of misericord | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relaxation of monastic rules
2. Relaxation of monastic rules.
   countable, uncountable
3. comma (punctuation mark)
4. a small projection on the underside of a hinged seat of a church stall that when the seat is lifted gives support to a person.
5. The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation
6. The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation.
   countable, uncountable
7. Relaxation of monastic rules, as a dispensation from fasting.
8. A ledge, sometimes ornately carved, attached to a folding church seat to provide support for a person standing for long periods; a subsellium
9. A ledge, sometimes ornately carved, attached to a folding church seat to provide support for a person standing for long periods; a subsellium.
   countable, uncountable
10. section
11. A bracket attached to the underside of a hinged seat in a church stall on which a standing person may lean. Also called miserere.
    miserere
12. A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe
13. coma (deep sleep)
14. A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe.
    countable, uncountable
15. A narrow dagger used in medieval times to deliver the death stroke to a seriously wounded knight.
16. mane
17. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a ledge projecting from the underside of the hinged seat of a choir stall in a church, on which the occupant can support himself or herself while standing
18. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity a. a relaxation of certain monastic rules for infirm or aged monks or nuns
    Christianity
19. (Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a small medieval dagger used to give the death stroke to a wounded foe
20. n → Miserikordie f
    n

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Examples

“1969, M. D. Anderson, The Iconography of British Misericords, G. L. Remnant, A Catalogue of Misericords in Great Britain, page xxiii, Misericords are a very humble form of medieval art and it is unlikely that the most distinguished carvers of any period were employed in making them, except, perhaps, during their apprentice years.”

“A misericord - a hinged projection on the underside of a choir seat - dates from about 1200 and is possibly the oldest in England.”

“In this essay I will focus primarily on the subject of the owl in order to illustrate how bestiary imagery was modified and developed in late medieval public church decoration, primarily in the form of the sculpted choir-seats known as misericords. The owl provides a good case study of this process as it was an especially popular misericord motif and its artistic and literary characterizations are largely informed by—but not limited to—the bestiaries.”

“The construction of a misericord stall is very peculiar. The shaped standards or elbows are cut out of wide planks. They are notched over a deep and massive bottom rail (to which the misericords are hinged in many cases), and are housed into the massive capping, which is very wide and hollowed out with semicircular recesses to form curved backs for the stalls.”

“The word misericordia implies an act of mercy but despite its amiable name, it refers to coercing or forcing a spirit to pass through the Gates of Death. In the age of medieval chivalry, knights carried a dagger called the misericorde that was used to strike the coup de grâce upon mortally wounded foes so that they did not have to suffer. The term “misericordia” carries a similar import in necromancy.”

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