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词汇 menologion
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Definition of menologion in English:

menologion

nounPlural menologia ˌmɛnə(ʊ)ˈlɒɡɪɒnˌmɛnə(ʊ)ˈləʊdʒɪən
  • A calendar of the Greek Orthodox Church containing biographies of the saints.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of these menologia have double inscriptions, both Greek and Iberian, which disclose a close relation between the Monastery of St. Catherine and the Church of Georgia.
    • As in the original manuscript the homilies did not follow any logical order, the anonymous scribe felt it necessary to rearrange the texts according to the liturgical calendar of the Byzantine Church; he, therefore, made them follow the order of the liturgical readings: menologion, triodion, pentekostarion, and orthros.
    • Text manuals are the result of compilation from many different sources: menologia, synaxaria, hagiographic literature, liturgical books and descriptions of actual paintings.
    • This paper proposes to study these stereotypes and see if and how they evolve with the different rewritings of the Lives: from premetaphrastic Lives, to metaphrastic Lives, to the summaries introduced in menologia.
    • But even this icon differs fundamentally from ours because it typifies the tradition of frontally standing saints followed in menologia.

Origin

Early 18th century: from ecclesiastical Greek mēnologion, from Greek mēn 'month' + logos 'account'.

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