| 单词 | repentance stool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepentance stool repentance stool n. now historical = stool of repentance n. at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance penitent form1563 repenting stool1567 stool of repentance1581 place of repentance1582 repentance stool1591 repentance seat1771 cutty-stoola1774 Mercy seat1818 anxious seat1827 anxious bench1832 mourner's bench1834 mourner's seat1845 moaner's bench1929 1591 in A. J. Mill Mediaeval Plays in Scotl. (1927) 281 [Offenders are] to stand on the keikstwl and repentance stwle thair to declair thair offence. 1670 in J. Hunter Diocese & Presbytery Dunkeld (1918) I. 380 Betuixt the laird of Bamffe's seat and the middest of the pillar wher the repentance stool now stands. 1701 Ld. Fountainhall Decisions (1761) II. 132 Craves that he may stand in sackcloth at the Kirk-door, and sit on the repentance-stool. c1765 Collection Scot. Poems 68 Tague..told him, he behoved to do penance on the repentance stool. 1869 C. Rogers Scotl. vii. 352 On the repentance stool, delinquents generally stood up, but in certain parishes they were permitted to sit upon it. 1987 C. E. Brown Social Hist. Relig. in Scotl. iv. 96 At Auchinleck in the same county the repentance stool was discreetly sited under a gallery. < as lemmas |
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