[OE. bisceopstól bishop’s seat: see STOOL.] The throne, seat or see of a bishop. Obs. since 13th c., but taken up by some recent historical writers.
c. 1065. Chart. Eadweard, in Cod. Dipl., IV. 197. Ðe ðone bisceopstol ʓestaðeloðon.
a. 1300. O. E. Misc., 145. Wes … imaked þer [at Bath] Bisscop stol.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. App. 604. The Bishop had his see, his Bishopstool, in some particular church.
1876. Green, Short Hist., i. § 3 (1882), 31. The old bishop-stool of the West-Saxons had been established … at … Dorchester.
