In this view, the murderous misericorde was by the middle-age poets assigned to "Pity," as an emblem of her benevolence.
This name of misericorde appears to have been given because, in the last struggle of contending foes, the uplifted dagger compelled the discomfited fighter to cry for mercy.
Up-on which misericorde folweth pitee, in parfourninge of charitable werkes of misericorde.
And men mighten axe, why that misericordeand pitee is relevinge of Avarice?
The speces of misericorde been, as for to lene and for to yeve and to foryeven and relesse, and for to han pitee in herte, and compassioun of the meschief of his evene-cristene, and eek to chastyse there as nede is.
Certes, the avaricious man sheweth no pitee ne misericorde to the nedeful man; for he delyteth him in the kepinge of his tresor, and nat in the rescowinge ne relevinge of his evene-cristene.
A similar, but more definite misericorde is in Ripon Cathedral.
In a misericorde at Beverley Minster we have three scenes from the history of the Devil.
The form of themisericorde is almost invariably a three-part design, and, being purely arbitrary, its universal adoption is one of the evidences of the organization of the craft gild.
New College, Oxford, has a misericorde of the subject in which the figures, female in appearance, are seated in a sort of box.
This is probably explained by a mask in a misericorde in St. Mary's Minster, in which some object, perhaps the nasal of a helmet, comes down the middle of the forehead.
This is one of the side carvings to the misericorde of the three mowers, considered under the head of "Trinities.
The sword is slung in the prevailing mode, but the misericorde is in an almost horizontal position at the back.
The figure shows the sword and misericordebeing worn as in the Surcoatless Period.
A very late example of the hip-belt is shown, from which the misericorde is suspended, the sword-belt being quite distinct.
The curious brass to Sir Ralph de Knevynton, however, exemplifies it, though the chains for attachment of both sword and misericorde are affixed to the breastplate (see Fig.
Round the waist is seen the ornamental belt worn by all knights of that period round the hips; it carries no sword or misericordeand is therefore purely ornamental, and, if we may say so, entirely superfluous.
This weapon has been described where necessary in preceding chapters up to and including the Camail and Jupon Period, when the misericorde with its triangular blade was so much in evidence.
The misericorde was suspended as usual upon the right side, but the point of the blade is now directed towards the rear, and is generally hidden in brasses by the body of the knight (Fig.
The misericorde is suspended as in the later days of Richard II.
From its occurrence upon many monumental effigies, we gather that as a rule the misericordewas attached to the belt by a chain, but this feature is not as a rule shown upon brasses.
The nun of the Misericorde suggested raising Mama on sheets.
After some time the nun of the Misericorde fetched me into the room of death, and we began to light torches round the bed, and watch those dear remains, and there we watched and prayed for the dead for long, long hours.
Soon after five o'clock Father Galway was here, and then Lady Lothian came with a nun of the Misericorde as a nurse.
I ordered a person to watch from eleven at night until the morning, when the nun of the Misericorde went in.
That night (Monday, May 25), a nun of the Misericorde sat up in the room.
The "Lai d'Aristote," which occurred in the exterior carvings, is repeated here on the misericorde which is the ninth of the top row on the southern side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misericorde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
