seel (se)

[ May I depart in peace, I have seen my see . Browning , Ring and Book, ii. 128. see2t, n. An obsolete spelling of sea1 . see3 (sē), n. [Early mod. E. also sea ; see , se , se , sed , siet = Sp. sede , see, = Pg. sede , se = It. sede , a seat, see. sedes , a seat, se- dere = E. sit : see sit . Cf. seat .] 1. A seat of power or dignity; a throne. And smale harpers with her glees Saten under hem in sees . Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1210. In the Roofe, ouyr the popes see , A saluator may thou see, Neuer peynted with hond of mon. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 126. Scho lifte me up lightly with hir leve hondes, And sette me softely in the see , the septre me rechede. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3351. Jove laught on Venus from his soverayne see . Spenser, F. Q., III. vi. 2. IMG:content-0508.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The seat of a bishop, whether an ordinary 5. Race; generation; birth. bishop, or a bishop of higher rank (metropoli- tan, etc., patriarch, pope); the local center of a diocese and of diocesan authority, or of a di- ocese and other subordinate dioceses; the city or locality from which ecclesiastical jurisdiction is exercised; hence, episcopal rank, authority, and jurisdiction as exercised from a permanent local center. The word see , from meaning any seat of dignity, came to apply specifically to the cathedra, or epis- copal throne, situated in a cathedral, thence to the city which contained the cathedral and was the chief city of a bishop's diocese, and so in modern usage to the dio- cese itself. It differs from diocese , however, in that diocese represents the territorial province for the care of which the bishop is responsible (that is, where his duties lie), whereas see is the local seat of his authority, dignity, and episcopal privileges. Both words differ from bishopric , in that bishop- ric represents the bishop's office, whether actual or nom i- O Israel, O household of the Lord, O Abraham's brats, O brood of ble ed seed , O chosen sheep that loved the Lord indeed! Gas coigne, De Pro fund is. Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller, To Zelinda. 6. That from which anything springs; first prin- ciple; origin: often in the plural: as, the seeds of virtue or vice; to sow the seeds of discord. Seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. nal. See throne. IMG:content-0509.png:[blocks in formation] We shall make a march of it, seeing all the see ables on the way. Southey , Letters, II. 271. ( Davies .) seebachite (sē'bak-it), n. [Named after Karl von Seebach , a German geologist (1839-78).] A zeolitic mineral from Richmond, near Melbourne, Victoria, probably identical with herschelite.