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necrology|nɛˈkrɒlədʒɪ|
[See necro- and -logy. In sense 1, ad. med.L. necrologium, repr. Gr. *νεκρολόγιον (cf. martyrology): hence also F. nécrologe. Cf. F. nécrologie in senses 2 and 3.]
1. An ecclesiastical or monastic register containing entries of the deaths of persons connected with, or commemorated by, the church, monastery, etc.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. 1817Fosbroke Brit. Monachism xxxvi. (ed. 2) 305 They were entered in the Necrology, selected from thence on the day of their decease, and..suitable prayers said. 1846W. Maskell Mon. Rit. I. p. cxlix, The Martyrology must not be confounded with a volume..which more properly was the Necrology.
b. A list of persons who have died within a certain time; a death-roll.
1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 16 The necrology of the period in question does not contain in its registers the names of many great men. 1879Athenæum 6 Dec. 731 Very heavy is this year's necrology in the Royal Society.
2. An obituary notice.
1799Southey in Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 294 If this be worth mentioning in your necrology. 1812B. Field in Examiner 9 Nov. 715/1 To the Memory of Daniel Parker, Esq...upon reading his Necrology.
3. The history of the dead.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. iv, It is believed by those to whom I was formerly known, that I exist no longer. My story belongs to necrology.
Add:[1.] c. An account or listing of deaths, esp. of deaths due to a particular cause.
1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 684/2 The agonies one went through as a child listening to old people go over their necrology! 1975New Yorker 26 May 117/1 One might begin with a necrology of famous women who died of complications attending pregnancy or childbirth. 1988Washington Post 25 Sept. (Book World) 8/5 A necrology in which Ellison expresses his grief and bitterness at the recent deaths of numerous colleagues [etc.]. |