Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A list of people who have died, especially in the recent past or during a specific period.
- noun An obituary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A register of persons, as members of a society, etc., who die within a certain time; an obituary, or a collection of obituary notices.
- noun Formerly, in religious houses, a book which contained the names of persons for whose souls prayer was to be offered, as founders of the establishment, benefactors, and members.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A church
register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died. - noun A
listing of people who havedied during a specific period of time. - noun A
notice ofdeath ; anobituary . - noun The study of
death or the dead.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- noun a list of people who died recently
Etymologies
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Examples
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Next were the Gospel readings used at pretiosa (text recited after the reading from the Martyrology in the chapterhouse after the Office of Prime) .121 At the close of the manuscript are the Augustinian Rule and Raymond of Peñafort's version of the Order's constitutions. 122 A comparison between the prototype and the Unterlinden manuscript shows that the necrology is specific to the codex's community, in the first case the men in charge of the
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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"The necrology package - or as I call them at this show: the lucky ones."
Arianna Huffington: Bill Maher Saves the Oscars... At Least for Me Arianna Huffington 2011
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"The necrology package - or as I call them at this show: the lucky ones."
Arianna Huffington: Bill Maher Saves the Oscars... At Least for Me Arianna Huffington 2011
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"The necrology package - or as I call them at this show: the lucky ones."
Arianna Huffington: Bill Maher Saves the Oscars... At Least for Me Arianna Huffington 2011
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The Unterlinden example is found in a manuscript that dates to the end of the thirteenth century with some additional fourteenth-century material, as well as continuous additions to the necrology in the calendar. 118 The collection begins with a computation table and a calendar (incorporating a necrology for the community).
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The first half begins with a necrology and calendar for the nuns, prioresses, and confessors of Maria Magdalena, as well as the General Masters of the Order based upon the Humbert prototype.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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When he had begun as Medical Examiner, forensics were virtually non-existent; now it occupied more floor space and staff than necrology, and more of his time too.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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Oh, and if I can include one other figure in this necrology, it was reported from London that the world's oldest man, Henry Allingham, the last surviving World War I veteran, died at the very ripe age of 113.
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This prompted Ted, who's made necrology a specialty, to note that two prominent same-day deaths are rare.
David Finkle: The Breakfast Club Takes on Jackson, Fawcett, Sanford, Mrs. Madoff 2009
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The book contains the Old Testament, the New Testament, a necrology of the Podlazice monastery, a list of Podlazice fraternity members, a script on natural history, the oldest Czech Latin chronicle – there are eleven contents items in all.
The Devil’s Bible: The Biggest Book in the World | Impact Lab 2007
mialuthien commented on the word necrology
See obituary.
July 27, 2008
qms commented on the word necrology
A Christmas card list has a quality
At first of good cheer and frivolity.
By decades that column
Grows more and more solemn
And ossifies into necrology.
May 25, 2018