heortologyn.
/hiːɔːˈtɒlədʒi/ The science or study of the origin, meaning, growth, and history of the religious feasts and seasons of the Christian year.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > study of
heortology1901
1901 J. R. Harris in Soc. Hist. Theology 31 Oct. 5 The Study of Christian Heortology... The problems that belong to the region of Christian Heortology.
1913 J. R. McKee (title) The Church's year, a handbook of heortology.
Derivatives
heortoˈlogical adj. of or relating to heortology.
heorˈtologist n. a person who studies heortology.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > study of > person pursuing
heortologist1900
1900 Expositor Nov. 348 We are to regard the statement of the calendars as the conjecture of a heortologist.
1918 E. Bishop Liturg. Hist. 258 Recalling too how the recent heortologist Dr. Kellner considers that the mention of the feast in the Irish calendars does not prove the celebration of the feast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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