Choir-stall

  • 31Carthusian — Order Abbreviation O.Cart., Carthusians Motto Stat crux dum volvitur orbis …

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  • 32instal — [16] To instal someone was originally literally to put them ‘into a stall’. The word comes from medieval Latin installāre, a compound verb based on the noun stallum ‘stall’, and referred originally to the formal induction of someone into an… …

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  • 33instal — [16] To instal someone was originally literally to put them ‘into a stall’. The word comes from medieval Latin installāre, a compound verb based on the noun stallum ‘stall’, and referred originally to the formal induction of someone into an… …

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  • 34Throne — This article is about royal thrones; for other meanings see Throne (disambiguation). The thrones for Elizabeth II as Queen of Canada, and the Duke of Edinburgh (back) in the Canadian Senate, Ottawa are usually occupied by the Queen s… …

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  • 35Auxiliary Bishop — • A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions; or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one; or whose episcopal see has… …

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  • 36stasidion — /steuh sid ee euhn/, n., pl. stasidia / sid ee euh/. a choir stall in an Orthodox church. [ < MGk stasídion station, seat in a church, prob. equiv. to Gk stás(is) position, station (see STASIS) + idion dim. suffix] * * * stasidˈion noun (Mod… …

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  • 37Nationality Rooms — Coordinates: 40°26′40″N 79°57′12″W / 40.444426°N 79.953423°W / 40.444426; 79.953423 …

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  • 38Misericord — Small projecting ledge on the underside of a hinged seat in the choir stall of a church. When the seat is hinged up, this ledge gives some support to a standing person until they fall asleep. 1) a swing up seat in the choir of a major church,… …

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  • 39Judensau — (German for Jews sow ) is a derogatory and dehumanizing image of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow (female pig), which in Judaism is an unclean animal, that appeared during the 13th century in Germany and some other European countries. Its …

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  • 40Hegumen — Hegumen, hegumenos, or ihumen (Greek: ἡγούμενος ; Macedonian, Bulgarian and Russian: игумен, trans. igumen ; Ukrainian: Ігумен ihumen ; ka. იღუმენი, iğumeni ; Romanian: egumen ; Serbian: Игуман or Iguman ) is the title for the head of a monastery …

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