مَجْلِسٌ

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مَجْلِسٌ A sitting-place; as also ↓ with ة; similar to مَكَانٌ and مَكَانَةٌ: [a place where persons sit together and converse; a sitting-room:] a thing upon which one sits: some make a strange distinction between مَجْلِسٌ and مَجْلَسٌ , asserting the former to be applied to the chamber or house (بَيْت) [in which people sit]; and the latter, to a place of honour upon which it is forbidden to sit without permission; but the former is the only correct form of the two: pl. مَجَالِسُ. You say, اُرْزُنْ فِى مَجْلِسِكَ and [Be thou grave] in thy sitting-place.
2 The people of a مَجْلِس; elliptical, for أَهْلُ مَجْلِسٍ: an assembly, or a company of men, sitting [together]: not well explained as being, with the article ال, syn. with النَّاسُ: persons sitting, or sitting up. [See also جَلْسٌ.] You say, اِنْفَضَّ المَجْلِسُ [The assembly of persons sitting together broke up]. And رَأَيْتُهُمْ مَجْلِسًا I saw them sitting.
3 An oration or a discourse, or an exhortation, (خُطْبَةٌ أَوْ عِظَةٌ,) delivered in a مَجْلِس; like مَقَامَةٌ.
4 It is also used in the same manner as حَضْرَة and جَنَاب: you say مَجْلِسُ فُلَانٍ [meaning The object of resort, with whom others sit and converse, such a one]; like حَضْرَةُ فُلَانٍ. [See arts. حضر and جنب. But this usage I believe to be post-classical.]
5 [Also A stool; meaning, an evacuation. So in medical books.]

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