| 单词 | porphyry chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporphyry chair porphyry chair n. historical a chair with a pierced seat, said to have been used to verify the sex of a pope-elect during investiture (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > pope's Apostolic seat1560 porphyry chair1647 1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 13 For you my brat That pose the porph'ry Chaire, Pope Iohn or Ioane, or whatsoe're you are, You are a Nephew. 1768 R. Baron Pillars of Priestcraft & Orthodoxy Shaken (ed. 2) III. 38 Succeeding popes were placed in a porphyry-chair with a hole in the bottom, and immediately after the election, their genitals were to be searched by the youngest deacon. 1987 16th Cent. Jrnl. 18 387 The most notorious reminder of Joan's reign—the perforated porphyry chair on which the probatio sexus was said to have been administered immediately after a papal election. 2000 Mod. Philol. 98 275 Medieval chroniclers described a ceremony in which a pope-elect sat in a pierced, porphyry chair so that ‘one of the younger cardinals may make proof of his sex’. < as lemmas |
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