Definition of "mercy-seat" [mercy-seat]

• The place of mercy or forgiveness; the propitiatory; specifically, the covering of the ark of the covenant among the Jews. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Moses at Mount Sinai; so also they cannot be applied to Him in His speaking to the high priests from the mercy-seat."
• "Divine Presence shook the mercy-seat between the cherubim, and which derive their splendour from no earthly prince, but from the awful Voice, which bade their fathers be nearest of the congregation to the Vision —"
• "Pressing her fingers to her eyeballs till the starry blindness was effected that induces ecstasy, she prostrated herself before the mercy-seat, not omitting, at this crisis, to conciliate the"