Misereʹre (4 syl.).

Our fifty-first psalm is so called. One of the evening services of Lent is called misereʹre, because this penitential psalm is sung, after which a sermon is delivered. The under side of a folding-seat in choir-stalls is called a misereʹre; when turned up it forms a ledge-seat sufficient to rest the aged in a kneeling position.