BEADROLL

Etymology

Noun

beadroll (plural beadrolls)

(obsolete) A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for.

A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.

Foreign Quarterly Review

It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.

Source: Wiktionary


Bead"roll`, n. (R. C. Ch.)

Definition: A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TWIST

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