Crossword clues for misericord
misericord
Wiktionary
n. 1 Relaxation of monastic rules. 2 The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation. 3 A ledge, sometimes ornately carved, attached to a folding church seat to provide support for a person standing for long periods; a subsellium. 4 A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe.
Wikipedia
A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the Biblical object) is a small wooden structure formed on the underside of a folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a shelf to support a person in a partially standing position during long periods of prayer.
Usage examples of "misericord".
And the traveller Leopold was couth to him sithen it had happed that they had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learningknight lay by cause the traveller Leopold came there to be healed for he was sore wounded in his breast by a spear wherewith a horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice.
And I knew, from the strange way Carl Boordling gave me the misericord, that it somehow was a clue, or a solution, to the whole affair.
A true misericord was a thing with a thin needlelike blade, its purpose being to slip between the joints of a suit of armor in order to finish off the occupant.
Doc merely held the edge of the card against the blade of the misericord and-holding misericord and business card close to his face-slowly cut into the edge of the card with a single long stroke.
Savage demonstrated with the long-bladed misericord and a stiff business card.
So he made this misericord by hand, and he put a sound-track on the blade.
He had a long misericord, and I belatedly realized that I had left my sword belt in my room.
In her right hand was a rapier, and in the left a misericord, one of the thin elongated daggers used by plate-armored combatants.
I said, sliding the misericord out and handing it over to two first-year students.
He wore not one but two deadly misericords on the right side of his sword belt, with another, shorter dagger at his waist.
Church records show some resentment about him appearing on the misericords with the others, but he's withstood the onslaught of controversy as well as time.
But as it happened the misericord sliced only into the skin at the side of the neck before the Prince's metal gauntlet grasped the attacker's hand, and the blade was withdrawn.