The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misericordia \Mis`e*ri*cor"di*a\, n. [L., mercy, compassion; miser wretched + cor, cordis, heart.]
(O. Law) An amercement.
--Burrill.(Anc. Armor.) A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or ``mercy'' stroke to a fallen adversary.
(Eccl.) An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
--Shipley.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal obsolete English) An amercement. 2 A thin-bladed dagger, used in the Middle Ages to give the death wound or ''mercy'' stroke to a fallen adversary. 3 An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
Wikipedia
Misericórdia ( English: Mercy) is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Lisbon. This new parish was created with the 2012 Administrative Reform of Lisbon, merging the former parishes of Mercês, Santa Catarina, Encarnação and São Paulo. The population in 2011 was 13,044, in an area of 2.19 km².
Usage examples of "misericordia".
Quos ille multa iam nocte silentio ex fuga excepit, veritus ne qua in castris ex eorum concursu et misericordia vulgi seditio oreretur, ut procul in via dispositis familiaribus suis principibusque civitatum disparandos deducendosque ad suos curaret, quae cuique civitati pars eastrorum ab initio obvenerat.
Datur petentibus venia dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente et precibus ipsorum et misericordia vulgi.