2. Noun. The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation. ¹
3. Noun. a subsellium. ¹
4. Noun. a medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misericord
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misericord
Literary usage of Misericord
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Monachism: Or, Manners and Customs of the Monks and Nuns of England by Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1843)
"misericord. THIS was a hall in which were tables and a dresser. The word misericord
also implied stated indulgences and allowances, according to ..."
2. Monks and Monasteries: Being an Account of English Monachism by Samuel Fox (1845)
"misericord. SONG-SCHOOL. MINT. CELLS. GRANGES. Like some tall rock, with lichens
gray. Seemed dimly huge the dark abbaye ; When Hawick he passed had curfew ..."
3. Northamptonshire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Journal by Christopher Alexander Markham (1896)
"JW misericord AT WELLINGBOROUGH ; BY GJ DE Wn DK. 814.—misericordS IN THE CHURCH
OF ALL SAINTS, WELLING- BOROUGH.—The stalls in this church may be accounted ..."
4. Guilielmi Estii in omnes d. Pauli epistolas item in catholicas commentarii by Gulielmus Estius, Wilhelm Estius (1859)
"... nt elementar et misericord!tur, non antera ex rigore justitiae, cum reo agat:
haec tria máxime in Christum сош- petunt. ..."
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