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Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 23

(Modern Lat. in, and stallum, a seat.) A name applied to the ceremony of instating persons in honours or dignities; as a knight of the Garter in the chapel of St. George at Windsor; a chancellor in a university; or a dean, prebendary, or other ecclesiastical dignitary, in the stall of the cathedral to which he belongs. [s. 614]