sedile

American  

[se-dahy-lee] / sɛˈdaɪ li /

noun

Ecclesiastical.

plural

sedilia

1. one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.

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Etymology

Origin of sedile

1785–95; < Latin sedīle sitting-place, equivalent to sed ( ēre ) to sit ¹ + -īle neuter noun suffix

Example Sentences

Note the old font which was evidently at one time coloured; also the aumbry, piscina and sedile.

From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Holmes, Edric

Poeta, lector, hic quiescit Hipponax, Si sis scelestus, praeteri, procul, marmor: At te bonum si noris, et bonis natum, Tutum hic sedile, et si placet, sopor tutus.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Cæsar,     expenditures as sedile, 183-4;     and Curio, 245-7, 253-4, 260-6;     secures Curio as agent in Rome, 256-8;     unprepared for civil war, 263;     et passim in chapters on Curio and Matius.

From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost

The sanctuary contains a sedile and piscina, and a stoup and a rougher piscina will be found in the nave.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

In the N. aisle is an ambry, and in the S. aisle a sedile and two piscinæ, and on the N. side another ambry.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)