单词 | martyrology |
释义 | martyrologyn. 1. a. A list or account of martyrs; spec. a book listing Christian martyrs and other saints in the order of their commemoration, with a description of their lives and sufferings. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > list or book of martilogea1387 mortiloge1447 martyrologe1500 martyrology1599 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 95 The Martyrologies of such as rendred by their deaths a testimonie to that truth which [etc.]. 1647 J. Vicars Just Correction Scandalous Bill (title page) A Succinct Traiterologie, in Answer to a lying Martyrologie. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 961 In the antient Martyrologies of the Church we meet with sundry relations of the appearances of Angels. 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State of Cork ii. iv. 246 This saint is, in an ancient martyrology, called bishop. 1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. ii. ii. 334 A fabulizing martyrology. 1846 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae I. p. cxliii It was at length ordered that nothing should be read in the Martyrology, but the name and date of the martyrdom of the Saint. 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 310 The martyrology and computus of Herrand of Landsperg. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 481/1 St Alban is commemorated in the Roman martyrology on the 22nd of June. 1956 O. Von Simson Gothic Cathedral 185 Our manuscript..contains..a martyrology or list of the saints commemorated by the church of Chartres in the course of the liturgical year. 1983 Notes & Queries Feb. 16/1 The orbit is common in early martyrologies and calendars. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll > of religious house martyrologe1631 martyrology1695 necrology1728 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. sig. Iiiii3v/1 Martyrologium, a Martyrology or Register kept in Religious houses, wherein they set down the donations of their benefactors, and the days of their death. 2. An account of people who have suffered death for a cause. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > list or book of > of those who have suffered death in a cause martyrology1659 1659 Seasonable Enq. Peace 7 How worthy is the martyrology of those Persons of Honor, who sacrifice their Lives and Fortunes, rather than to betray these noble Liberties, to be..had in an anniversary remembrance. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. iii. 102 It is not within the Compass of my Design to write a Martyrology of these Times; nor to follow bishop Bonner and his Brethren through the Rivers of Protestant Blood which they spilt. 1857 Notes & Queries 14 Mar. 205/1 Books Burnt.—Poor Tom Durfey! who would have expected to have seen his witty works enshrined in the martyrology of books. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 27 Jan. 111/1 The consort of ex-Queen Isabella of Spain..said..in alluding to the premature death of his son-in-law..‘Our family has no longer a history; it has only a martyrology.’ 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 10 110 They [sc. Condorcet and Lavoisier] both belong to the martyrology of social science. 1942 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 7 577 Like every history of the Jews it is mostly a lugubrious martyrology. 1994 Guardian 5 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 43/4 Postage stamps were issued honouring the two Eliahus and guaranteeing them an honoured place in the martyrology of the ‘fighting family’. 3. The branch of history or literature that deals with the lives of martyrs; the histories of martyrs collectively. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > history or accounts of agonal1610 martyrology1801 society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > history or accounts of > department which deals with martyrology1801 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 54 Monastic legend and the rubric of martyrology. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 501 The courage of the survivor was sustained by an enthusiasm as lofty as any that is recorded in martyrology. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 549 We are here on the dangerous ground of martyrology. 1969 World Politics 21 293 On the Protestant side, too, there was a phase of martyrology and eyewitness-accounting and documentation [of the Holocaust]. 4. An ethos of martyrdom, esp. a Christian-based ideology of personal sacrifice. ΚΠ 1954 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 19 488/2 Eastern Ketman is..in dialectical opposition to the Western code of martyrology, whence the doctrines of personal responsibility for truth, fair dealing in public, open diplomacy. 1994 Yale French Stud. No. 85. 162 Incorporated into the symbolism of Christian martyrology, Auschwitz is transformed into a ‘symbol of the sacrifice accomplished with Christ’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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