Synonyms

1. bench

Sentence Examples

1. Others, conversely, were, after a sham trial, sentenced to death, with the unprecedented excuse in the annals of the judiciary that he had simply grown tired of them and the time had now come to replace them, like his clothing col-lection, with new ones, because they were worn way too many times and became completely out of fashion.
2. This being as it is, it is clear that this ape speaks by the spirit of the devil and I am astonished they have not denounced him to the Holy Office, and put him to the question, and forced it out of him by whose virtue it is that he divines because it is certain this ape is not an astrologer neither his master nor he sets up, or knows how to set up, those figures they call judiciary, which are now so common in Spain that there is not a jade, or page, or old cobbler, that will not undertake to set up a figure as readily as pick up a knave of cards from the ground, bringing to nought the marvellous truth of the science by their lies and ignorance.