chair (used as the symbol of old age, when rest is the natural condition, in 1H6 III. ii. 51, IV. v. 5; cf CHAIR-DAYS)
1.
seat of
authority, as a throne, a judgement-seat, the Roman
rostra
Wiv. V. v. 67
“chairs of order”
(in St. George's Chapel, Windsor),
3H6 I. iv. 97
“he that took King
Henry's chair,”
II. i. 90
“His dukedom and his
chair,”
H8 IV. i. 67
“chair of state,”
Cor. III. iii. 34
“the chairs of
justice,”
IV. vii. 52*,
Cæs. III. ii. 69
“the public
chair.”
2.
sedan (not pre-S.)
Oth. V. i. 82, 96
