| 单词 | rising seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrising seat rising seat n. chiefly U.S. a bank of ascending rows of seats facing the congregation in a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > preacher's pew1479 reading pew1636 jube1725 rising seat1851 1851 Yale Lit. Mag. July 362 The plain antique appearance of the building, its benches and walls unstained but by time, the rising seats where are seen the aged preachers, [etc.]. 1889 M. C. Lee Quaker Girl Nantucket ii. 28 In the sing-song drawl once peculiar to the tuneful exhortations of the ‘rising’ seat,..he thus held forth. 1922 Friend 30 Mar. 463/2 The Ministers' Gallery faced Farewell Street. On the ‘rising seat’, as it was called, sat David Buffum with his white beaver hat. 1987 D. C. H. Adams in Hist. Nantucket Spring (1988) 26 The meetings were silent unless someone on the rising seat felt the moving of the spirit. < as lemmas |
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