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bead-roll|ˈbiːdrəʊl|
Also 6–8 bed-, 6– bede-.
[f. bead n. + roll n.]
†1. orig. A list of persons to be specially prayed for. Obs. or arch.
c1500Fabyan Will in Chron. Pref. 6 The soules above written, may be remembred in their parisshe bede rolle by the whole space of a yere after. 1504in Bury Wills (1850) 100 A sangred to be payed for in the bedroule for my soule..by the space of a yeer. 1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man. To Rdr., Here a mass-penny, there a trental, yonder dirige-money, and for his bead-roll. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vii. 355 Those souls of the dead whose names were written upon the bead-roll just read out.
2. transf. A list or string of names; a catalogue; a long line, a pedigree; a long series.
1529More Supplic. Soules Wks. 289/1 This he laith to y⊇ onely fault of the cleargie, naming them in his bederolle, bishops, abbottes, etc. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 32 Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On fames eternall bead⁓roll worthie to be fyled. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. viii. (1632) 523 A man..who..doth nothing but molest all men with the impertinent bed-rowle and register of his pedigrees. 1607Heywood Wom. Kilde Wks. 1874 II. 115 'Rac'd from the bed-roll of Gentility. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xxii. (1748) 346 Wakefield battle next we in our bedroul bring. 1644Quarles Judgm. & Mercy 286 The devil presents me with a bead-roll of my offences. 1826Scott in Lockhart (1839) VIII. 322 A whole beadroll of cousins. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 218 The long bead-roll of the worthies of Bec. 1884Symonds Shaks. Predecess. v. 191 The whole bede roll of inferior oracles.
3. A string of beads for counting prayers; a rosary.
1598Hakluyt I. 115 A certaine string with an hundreth or two hundreth nutshels thereupon, much like to our bead⁓roule. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. 341 Superstition..with its pack of amulets, bead-rolls..fetisches. 1819Wordsw. Waggoner ii. 9 Twelve strokes that clock would have been telling..Its bead-roll of midnight. 1866Mrs. Stowe Lit. Foxes 22 Let us all make a bead-roll, a holy rosary, of all that is good and agreeable in our position..and charge ourselves to repeat it daily. |