单词 | regal or royal seat |
释义 | > as lemmasregal or royal seat a. Contextually applied to the chair set apart for the holder of some position of authority or dignity, the throne of a king or a bishop, or the like, the throne of God or of an angel. Hence figurative the authority or dignity symbolized by sitting in a particular chair or throne. regal or royal seat (archaic), †seat-royal, a royal throne. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > seat of authority seatc1175 consistorya1387 society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > seat of office or authority seldc825 stoolc897 high settlec950 seatc1175 benchc1330 stool1390 chair1393 stall1399 estatea1475 chair of state1498 statea1500 office chaira1715 society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > throne kine-settleeOE kine-stoolOE kine-seatc1175 seatc1175 siege?c1225 kine-benchc1275 seec1300 thronec1300 solera1340 soliec1400 propitiatory1603 soliuma1806 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11959 Þe deofell brohhte iesu crist. Wiþþ utenn o þe temmple. Vpp onn an sæte. upp o þe rof..Forr þær wass greȝȝþedd sæte o lofft Till þa þatt sholldenn spellenn. a1200 Vices & Virtues 105 Iusticia et iudicium preparatio sedis eius,..Rihtwisnesse and dom, hi makieð godes sate. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 155 King of Crete He hadde be; bot of his sete He was put doun. c1400 Gamelyn 855 Gamelyn sette him doun in the Iustices seet. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlii. 141 Thou art not worthy to sytt in a sete royall. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 36 He callit þe consullis to raise ane new contentioun to þare seittis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. i. 26 This is the Pallace of the fearefull King, And this the Regall Seat: possesse it Yorke. View more context for this quotation 1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) 595 The King comes forth in open audience, sitting in his Seat-royall. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xx. 6 Paraphr.) 116 As if by his own right hand from heaven, his holy seat of mansion, he should reach out deliverance to him. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 27 On to the sacred hill They led him high applauded, and present Before the seat supream. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 73 I, for my self, th' Imperial Seat will gain. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. vi. 80 A third..Can give or take the Honours of the State, The Consul's Fasces, and the Prætor's Seat. a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lxxiv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 53 The king would dress an ape up in his crown And robes, and seat him on his glorious seat. < as lemmas |
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