bead-rolln.
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society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > list of intended recipients of
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1504 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 100 A sangred to be payed for in the bedroule for my soule..by the space of a yeer.
1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. vi The soules above written, may be remembred in their parisshe bede rolle by the whole space of a yere after.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man To Rdr. f. xv Here a masse peny there a trentall, yonder dirige money and for his beyderoule.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. vii. 355 Those souls of the dead whose names were written upon the bead-roll just read out.
2. transferred. A list or string of names; a catalogue; a long line, a pedigree; a long series.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people
bead-roll1529
scroll1546
checker-roll1571
bead-row1576
panel?1578
list1604
nomenclature1635
lexicon1647
head-roll1819
name-scroll1861
visitors' lista1865
roll-call1867
test-roll1879
line-up1890
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. iii This he layth to the onely faut of the clergy: namyng them in hys bederoll byshops, abbottis, [etc.].
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7v Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. View more context for this quotation
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. viii. 557 A man..who..doth nothing but molest al men with the impertinent bedrowle & register of his pedigrees.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. Dv Raced from the Bed roule of gentility.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 42 Wakefield Battell next, we in our Bedroule bring.
1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 158 The Devill presents me with a beadroll of my Offences.
1826 W. Scott Diary 12 May in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) VI. 322 A whole beadroll of cousins.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 218 The long bead-roll of the worthies of Bec.
1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors v. 191 The whole bede roll of inferior oracles.
3. A string of beads for counting prayers; a rosary.
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun]
rosary1548
bead-roll1598
rosario1622
prayer bead1630
fifteen1688
paternoster1870
1598 Hakluyt I. 115 A certaine string with an hundreth or two hundreth nutshels thereupon, much like to our bead~roule.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. viii Superstition,..with its pack of amulets, bead-rolls,..fetisches.
1819 W. Wordsworth Waggoner ii. 9 Twelve strokes that clock would have been telling..Its bead-roll of midnight.
1866 H. B. Stowe Little 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.
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