See Also: retrochoir(medicine)

UNDER-SHERIFF (law) and retrochoir (medicine)


UNDER-SHERIFF (law)


UNDER-SHERIFF. A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and the deputy the under-sheriff. Vide 1 Phil. Ev. Index, h.t. and the deputy the under-sheriff. Vide 1 Phil. Ev. Index, h.t.

retrochoir (medicine)


retrochoir


Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Origin: Pref. Retro- + choir.

Source: Websters Dictionary