Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official list or catalog of religious martyrs, especially of Christian martyrs.
- noun An account of the life and manner of death of a martyr.
- noun The branch of ecclesiastical history or hagiography that deals with martyrs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The history of the lives, sufferings, and death of Christian martyrs.
- noun Pl. martyrologies (-jiz). A book containing such history; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, a list or calendar of martyrs, arranged according to the succession of their anniversaries, and including brief accounts of their lives and sufferings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Roman Catholicism A
catalogue orlist ofmartyrs (or, more precisely, ofsaints ), arranged in the order of theiranniversaries . - noun Judaism The story of the deaths of several famous Rabbis (including Rabbi Akiva) by
Romans , read both onYom Kippur and Tisha b'Av.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the oldest known recension of the so-called martyrology of St. Jerome the name of St. Blasius does not appear; it is only in the later, enlarged catalogues that he is mentioned.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
Firedoglake 2009
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
Firedoglake 2009
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host."
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'martyrology' and mass state liturgies that the LTTE has developed as a means of motivation, mobilization and legitimization of cause.
groundviews Michael Roberts 2009
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The fact that they died in the fog at a poorly equipped Russian airport, on their way to a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of Polish officers by Stalin's thugs, has fed old-style patriotic-religious martyrology.
Poland: a country getting to grips with being normal at last 2011
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