单词 | megalomartyr |
释义 | megalomartyrn. Orthodox Church. A martyr to whom particular veneration is given. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > great megalomartyra1773 a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) II. 93 Among those holy martyrs whom the Greeks honour with the title of Megalomartyrs (i.e. Great Martyrs) as St. George, St. Pantaleon, &c. 1842 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity II. 186 The ‘Megalomartyrs’ or Dii Selecti. 1919 G. R. Woodward (title) Saint George Megalomartyr in twenty hymns of the Holy & Orthodox Eastern Church. 1927 Man 27 198/2 Of the many and variegated topics touched upon in this book we may perhaps single out..the references to miracles,..the attempt to identify St. George the Megalomartyr, [etc.]. 1994 I. Wood Merovingian Kindoms 74 The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine ‘megalomartyr’ Menignos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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