menology
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A register of months, or of occurrences in the order of the months.
- noun A list or calendar of martyrs; specifically, in the Gr. Ch., a book which contains a list of all the festivals celebrated throughout the year, and the lives of the church saints and martyrs. It corresponds to the martyrology of the Roman Catholic Church.
Examples
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Henry, a lay brother, is also mentioned in the Cistercian menology.
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None of these witnesses have specified the number of the confessors, which is fixed at sixty in an old menology.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Note
The word 'menology' comes from Greek roots meaning 'month' and 'calendar'.
