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menology|miːˈnɒlədʒɪ|
Also in Gr. and Lat. forms menologion, menologium.
[ad. mod.L. mēnologium, ad. late Gr. µηνλόγιον, f. µηνο-, µήν month + λόγος account: see Logos. Cf. martyrology.]
A calendar of the months.
1. spec.
a. The distinctive title of the calendar of the Greek church, containing biographies of the saints in the order of the dates on which they are commemorated.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 68 They report..upon the authority..of the Greeks Menology, that St. Peter came hither. 1740A. Clarke Hist. Bible II. 321 The Greek Menologies intimate that he was shot. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N. T. App. 84 The Menologium or system of saints' days.
b. transf.; applied esp. to the OE. metrical church calendar first printed by Hickes in 1705. Now usu. in form menologium.
1709E. Elstob tr. ælfric's Homily on St. Gregory App. 26 The Original MS. of the Menologium is in the Cottonian Library. 1735M. Shelton tr. Wotton's Short View G. Hickes's Anc. Northern-Lang. 20 The first of these is a Poetical Calendar, translated into Latin, wherein it is observable, that this Menology, wrote at the Command of some Anglo-Saxon Bishop, or King, who reigned after the Dissolution of the Heptarchy, makes mention of no Saints except Pope Gregory, and Austin the Monk. 1807S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons (ed. 2) II. 280 The elegant Menology in the Cotton Library. 1830B. Thorpe tr. Rask's Gram. Anglo-Saxon Tongue 138 Another remarkable instance of this [lack of strophic or stanzaic divisions] is the conclusion of the Menologium Saxonicum. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. x. 83 To search in the Anglo-Saxon menology for the most distinguished patrons of the monastic profession. 1887Stanton (title) A menology of England and Wales; or, brief memorials of the ancient British and English saints, arranged according to the calendar. 1888(title) A menology or record of departed friends [compiled by M. E. Barrow]. 1892C. Plummer Sax. Chron. Expl. Gloss. 297 The Menologium or Metrical Calendar contained in Appendix A. 1905E. D. Hanscom in Jrnl. Eng. & Germ. Philol. V. 441 The Menologium preserves the popular names of October and November, Winterfylleð (184) and Blotmonað (195). 1932Chadwick & Kershaw Growth of Lit. I. 380 The Menologium or metrical calendar at the beginning of MS. C of the Saxon Chronicle.
2. gen. An almanac. ? Obs. rare—0.
1727Bailey vol. II, Menologion, an Account of the Course of the moon, an Almanack.
¶3. The department of knowledge that relates to the months.[Properly another word, repr. an assumed Gr. type in -λογία: see -logy.] 1807S. Turner Anglo-Sax. vii. iv. (ed. 2) II. 24 On the Menology and Literature of the Pagan Saxons. |