单词 | hagiology |
释义 | hagiologyn.ΚΠ 1651 tr. Vincent of Lerins Golden Treat. (rev. ed.) 63 The Angels..do glorifie one onely Lord God, yet with a triple Hagiologie [L. sanctificatione]. 2. The writing of a hagiography, or an account of the life of a saint; the documenting of the lives of saints or (occasionally) other venerated people, considered as a genre; (also) a written account of a saint's life. Cf. hagiography n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about hagiography1631 hagiology1780 hagio-romancea1843 saintology1848 hierology1890 1780 in A. Butler Lives Saints (rev. ed.) XII. App. 434 (note) To enumerate the Termons of Ireland would take up more room than can be spared in an epitome of general Hagiology. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 210 In the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue. 1947 C. W. Jones Saints' Lives & Chrons. Early Eng. v. 88 The normal records of an ecclesiastical centre: hagiologies in prose and meter, visions, annals and chronicles, [etc.]. 2014 Speculum 89 222 It is altogether a rich body of texts for the comparative study of late-medieval English monastic hagiology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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