a ledge projecting from the underside of a hinged seat in a choir stall which, when the seat is turned up, gives support to someone standing (唱诗班席位)可折板椅托板(支撑站立者用)
(historical)an apartment in a monastery in which some relaxations of the monastic rule were permitted (史)(修道院的)免戒室
(historical)a small dagger used to deliver a death stroke to a wounded enemy (史)(减少受伤之敌痛苦给以致命一击的)短剑,匕首
语源
Middle English (denoting pity): from Old French misericorde, from Latin misericordia, from misericors 'compassionate', from the stem of misereri 'to pity' + cor, cord- 'heart'