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

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

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

There are good oak stalls and a sedile in the chancel.

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

Our Lady in the centre of the design is seated on a Byzantine sedile with the infant Jesus on her knees.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by Bradley, John William

Elfride, in turning her head, saw something shine weakly from a crevice in the rocky sedile.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas