Definition of: misericorde

(miz′ər·i·kôrd′, mi·zer′i·kôrd) noun
1. A small dagger used in the Middle Ages to give the death stroke to a fallen knight.
2. Formerly, a dispensation from fasting given to a member of a monastic order.
3. An apartment in a monastery serving as a refectory for monks who had received such dispensation.
4. Miserere. Also mis′er·i·cord′. [<OF <L misericordia <misereri have pity + cor, cordis heart]