单词 | sedile |
释义 | sedilen. Architecture. plural. A series of seats, usually three in number, either movable or recessed in the wall and crowned with canopies, pinnacles, and other enrichments, usually placed on the south side of the choir near the altar for use by the clergy. Rarely singular one of the sedilia, or a single seat used for this purpose. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > clergy's > series of sediles1793 society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > clergy's stalla1400 sediles1863 1793 Archaeologia (1794) 11 335 I shall beg leave to turn the enquiry to..the sedilia, so frequently found in our chancels and chauntries. 1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 119 The south wall of the sacrarium contains five sedilia. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. 187 These sedilia were sometimes called, even in smaller churches, the ‘presbytery’. 1863 Sir G. Scott in Archaeologia Cantiana 5 5 The change..of the chancel into Early Pointed by adding vaulting, inserting lancet windows..and a beautiful Early English sedile. 1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) 360 Sedilia, seats for the officiating clergy on the south side of the altar—usually three for Priest, Deacon and Sub~deacon. 1891 Church Times 27 Nov. 1157/1 The lowest sedile within the sanctuary. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1793 |
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