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Definition of Menology
1. an ecclesiastical calendar [n -GIES]
Medical Definition of Menology
1. Origin: NL. Menologium, fr. Gr. Month + discourse: cf. F. Menologe. 1. A register of months. 2. A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menology
Literary usage of Menology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1836)
"On the menology and Literature of the PAGAN SAXONS. IN their computation of time
our ancestors reckoned by nights instead of days, and by winters instead of ..."
2. Medii ævi Kalendarium: Or Dates, Charters and Customs of the Middle Ages by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"... in allusion to the summer sun, or the flowers of this month ?) Thus this month
is described in the Poetical menology, so often quoted in this Work:— ..."
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