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faldstool|ˈfɔːldstuːl|
See also faldistory.
[ad. med.L. faldistoli-um, ad. OHG. faldstuol lit. ‘a folding seat or campstool’, f. faldan to fold + stuol seat, chair: see fold and stool. Cf. fauteuil. The OE. fyldestól has been explained as from Lat. or Rom. (with umlaut of the vowel of the first syll. due to the euphonic i prefixed in Romanic to a syllable beginning with st-) but cf. the gloss ‘volumina, fyldas’ in Zeitschrift f. deutsches Alterthum, IX. 494.]
1. Eccl. An armless chair used by bishops and other prelates when they do not occupy the throne or when officiating in any but their own church.
c1050Abbo Glosses in Ztsch. f. dtsches Alt. XXXI. 10 Forbuh ðu twyhweolne siᵹe onfoh þu fyldestol [c 1100 fældestol]. [1340Ayenb. 239 Þer he yzeȝ ane gratne dyeuel þet zet ope ane uyealdinde stole and al his mayne aboute him.] 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vi. 256 In later times..the faldstool was ‘a chair of woode covered with crymsen velvet’.
2. A movable folding-stool or desk at which worshippers kneel during certain acts of devotion; esp. one used by the sovereign at the ceremony of coronation.
1603Ceremon. at Coron. Jas. I (1685) 3 A Fald-stool, with Cushions for the King to pray at. 1685St. George's Day 6 The King kneeled at a fald-stool. a1693Ashmole Antiq. Berks. (1719) I. 10 A Judge in his Robes, kneeling at a Faldstool. 1838Form Coronation in Maskell Mon. Rit. (1847) III. 86 The Queen..kneeling at the Faldstool set for Her. 1851Kingsley Yeast ii, She turned and prayed at her velvet faldstool. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. (1864) 66 When we fail to derive from Prayer comfort and satisfaction, we become cowards, and run away from the faldstool.
3. A small desk at which the Litany is appointed to be said or sung; a Litany-stool.
a1626Bp. Andrewes in W. Nichols Comm. Bk. Com. Prayer Notes (1710) 23 The Priest..(at a low Desk before the Chancel-door, called the Fald-stool) kneels and says or sings the Litany. 1838Form Consecration in Maskell Mon. Rit. (1847) III. 90 Then followeth the Litany to be read by two Bishops..kneeling at a Faldstool. 1869Daily News 22 Dec., The Litany was chanted by two of the minor canons at a faldstool. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Ch. 45 The small desk for the Litany to be said from, generally miscalled the Faldstool. |