menologies

Noun

menology (plural menologies)

1. (uncommon) The study of months; the names and system of months within a given calendar.
   • ...in Afghanistan, we find two systems of month-names. One of these... is of Indian origin..., while the other is borrowed from the Mohammedan menology...1907, Louis H. Gray, “On Certain Persian and Armenian Month-Names...”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 28, page 332
2. (capitalized, often) Synonym of menologium, a monthly record, particularly in Assyriology and certain Christian contexts.
   • In the Mart. of Donegal, this is the day of St. Comgall (Comhgall), placed in the Menology on the 27th June, as having no day.1892, Richard Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales..., p. 645

   Synonyms:

   menologium

3. (rare) The content of a menologium, a liturgical calendar or hagiography.
   • Their readings from the holy Scriptures and from the fathers, from the menologies of the church and the teachings of its principal pastors, are a great, continually swelling hymn of praise to the rule of providence and to the progressive actualization of the eternal plan of salvation.1992, Waltraut Stein translating Edith Stein as "The Prayer of the Church", Great Catholic Writings, p. 45