Sedile

A footrest or even a little seat or sedile was fashioned as a block of wood and nailed to the upright crossbeam so the man could rest his buttocks. ❋ Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi (2010)

With a suppedaneum and a sedile, breathing was easier and the problem became dehydration and thirst, with the crucified man more likely to die from a combination of thirst and exposure, rather than asphyxia. ❋ Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi (2010)

Almanac (1676) and we find it alluded to in Boccaccio, the classical sedile which according to scoffers has formed the papal chair (a curule seat) ever since the days of Pope Joan, when it has been held advisable for one of the Cardinals to ascertain that His ❋ Unknown (2006)

Secundum moenia locus erat frondosis populis opacus, vitibusque sponte natis, tenuis prope aqua defluebat, placide murmurans, ubi sedile et domus Democriti conspiciebatur. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ingredienti: una discoteca, una tipa drogata, un sedile del water ad alta tecnologia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Elfride, in turning her head, saw something shine weakly from a crevice in the rocky sedile. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The same situation similarly described at _Fast_ I 81-82 'iamque noui praeeunt fasces, noua purpura fulget,/et noua conspicuum pondera sentit ebur'; compare as well _Med Fac_ 13 'matrona _premens altum_ rubicunda sedile' and _Met_ V 317 'factaque de uiuo _pressere_ sedilia saxo'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

The Chancel is Early English, with an inserted Perpendicular east window; there is a double sedile under one trefoil arch, and a double piscina in the south wall. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Cæsar, expenditures as sedile; and Curio; secures Curio as agent in Rome; unprepared for civil war; ❋ Frank Frost Abbott (1892)

Our Lady in the centre of the design is seated on a Byzantine _sedile_ with the infant ❋ John William Bradley (1873)

The writer begins thus: "From the upper shelf on the east side in the first seat (_de superiori textu [347] ex orienti parte in prima_ (sic) _sedile_)." ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)

It has been already shewn that _gradus_ means a shelf, or a lectern, or a side of a lectern [433]; and _sedile_ is obviously only the Latin equivalent for "seat," which was sometimes used, as at S. John's College, ❋ John Willis Clark (1871)

The sedile Pansa, at whose expense the exhibition was given, looked particularly annoyed at the defect, and vowed bitter vengeance on the head of the chief officer of the show, who, fretting, puffing, perspiring, busied himself in idle orders and unavailing threats. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

It is the "groaning-chair" of Poor Robin's Almanac (1676) and we find it alluded to in Boccaccio, the classical sedile which according to scoffers has formed the papal chair (a curule seat) ever since the days of Pope Joan, when it has been held advisable for one of the Cardinals to ascertain that His Holiness possesses all the instruments of virility. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The name of _magnum sedile_ has been given to them, I know not on what authority; but if they were intended to be used as stalls of dignity for special occasions, they would hardly have been made so wide and low as they are generally found. ❋ Various (1852)

The chancel is furnished with a sedile, credence-niche, stalls, reading desk, and lectern. ❋ Unknown (1846)

We do not often meet with sedilia of so early an era as the twelfth century; there are, however, instances of such, as in the church of St. Mary, at Leicester, where is a fine Norman triple sedile, divided into graduating seats by double cylindrical piers with sculptured capitals, and the recessed arches they support are enriched on the face with a profusion of the zigzag moulding. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)

Warwickshire, is a sedile for the priest, and below that one double the size for the deacon and sub-deacon; both are under recessed arched canopies. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)

A single sedile for one person only is occasionally met with, but not often. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)