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martyrology|mɑːtɪˈrɒlədʒɪ|
See also martiloge, martyrologe.
[ad. med.L. martyrologium, a. late Gr. µαρτυρολόγιον, f. µάρτυρ martyr n.1 + λόγος account: see Logos.]
1. A list or register of martyrs; spec. a book containing a list of Christian martyrs and other saints in the order of their commemoration, with some account of their lives and sufferings.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 95 The Martyrologies of such as rendred by their deaths a testimonie to that truth which [etc.]. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 335 In the ancient Martyrologies of the Church, we meet with sundry Relations of the Appearances of Angels. 1846W. Maskell Mon. Rit. 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.
b. Antiq. The necrology of a religious house.
1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II.
c. transf. An account of those who have suffered death in a cause.
1659Gentl. Calling Pref., I fear if the martyrologie even of these suffering times were scanned, Venus and Bacchus would be found to have had many more martyrs, than God and Loyalty. 1732–8Neal Hist. Purit. (1822) I. 87 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.
2. The histories of martyrs collectively; that department of ecclesiastical history or literature which deals with the lives of martyrs.[Properly a distinct word, as if f. a Gr. type in -λογία: see -logy.] 1801Fuseli in Lect. Paint. xxi. (1848) 377 Monastic legend and the rubric of martyrology. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 501 The courage of the survivor was sustained by an enthusiasm as lofty as any that is recorded in martyrology. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. vi. 493 We are here on the dangerous ground of martyrology. |