单词 | subsellium |
释义 | subselliumn. 1. Roman History. A usually backless seat or bench in a court, amphitheatre, etc. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > other parts of theatre > [noun] > parts of ancient Greek or Roman theatre scenaa1387 scene1481 orchestra1606 proscenium1606 cavea1611 scenarioa1684 subselliuma1701 diazoma1706 parascenium1706 pavilion1730 hyposcenium1753 thymele1753 vomitorium1754 velarium1834 velum1843 1651 R. Whitehall Τέχνηπολιμογαμία sig. A4 The Rostrum, and Subsellia. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 16 Vaults which run under the Subsellia all round the Theater. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres xiii. 336 Augustus..led the Hostages of the Parthians through the middle of the Arena, and placed them above himself on the second Subsellium or Bench. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista xxvi. 232 The magistrates were seated on the subsellia, one of the Duumvirs presiding. 1901 F. F. Abbott Hist. & Descr. Rom. Polit. Inst. x. 227 In the senate chamber each member chose the place on the subsellia which suited his fancy. 1966 L. R. Taylor Rom. Voting Assemblies iv. 64 The seat prepared for him on Rostra or tribunal was the tribune's bench, the long low subsellium. 1996 E. Fantham Rom. Literary Culture 301 (note) Courtney believes the recitation auditorium was arranged like a theater, reserving the orchestra for senators, fourteen rows of subsellia for the class of equites, [etc.]. 2. Church Architecture. A misericord (misericord n. 3); (also) a bench or seat in a church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > parts of > shelving projection on underside of misericordc1515 subsellium1793 miserere1801 subsella1819 1793 J. Dallaway Inq. Origin & Progress Sci. Heraldry vii. 398 The rapid improvement of architectural embellishment in that æra may be traced from the simple but elegant subsellium of king Edward. 1806 J. Dallaway Observ. Eng. Archit. 118 The application of the ancient carved subsellia to the present reading-desks is a new idea. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 47 The stalls and subsellia, however, belong in style to the period of their construction. The stalls have no misereres. 1977 C. M. Harris Hist. Archit. Sourcebk. 355/1 Miserere, Subsellium, a ledge on the bottom of a hinged seat in a church. 2007 Y. A. Marano in L. Lavan et al. Housing in Late Antiq. 109 In the apse, the episcopal cathedra and the subsellia for the clergy were rebuilt facing eastward. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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