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Alternative letter-case form of menologium, particularly in reference to (Eastern Orthodoxy) specific editions of the menaia or synaxaria or (Roman Catholicism) biographical records of members of religious orders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, often
Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
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Synonyms: menaion
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, often
Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
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Synonyms: synaxarium
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
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Qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
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Synonyms: kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, often
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, often, uncommon
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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Synonyms: martyrology
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noun
Synonym of menologem, a stylized date acting as a signature on some documents of the Byzantine Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: menologem
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History
From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.
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