a room in a monastery set apart for those monks permitted relaxation of the monastic rule.
Also subsellium. a small projection on the underside of a hinged seat of a church stall, which, when the seat is lifted, gives support to a person standing in the stall.
a medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe.
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Such indulgences or allowances of drink were also called misericord.
"It certainly looks like a misericord," remarked Reeves, drawing the rusty steel from its mouldy sheath.