Definition of misericordia:
(n) :
Compassionate mercy.
(n) :
A charitable institution, established by royal foundation and managed by a religious order for providing care to the poor, the sick, prisoners, orphans, etc.
(n) :
A song that is sung as part of a service asking for God's mercy.
(n) :
One or all of the members of the religious order that operates a misericordia.
(n) :
An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
(n) :
(historical) A misericord, a thin-bladed dagger, used in the Middle Ages to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary.