menologiums

Noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

1. A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and
   • The elder Pliny advises the sowing of certain crops between the Saturnalia (fixed at 17 December) and the Compitalia, which the roughly contemporary menologia indefinitely set in January.1976, Robert E.A. Palmer, "A Poem of All Seasons", Phoenix, Vol. 30, No. 2, p. 169
   1. (capitalized, often, Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of menaion, a book detailing the propers and hagiographic canons for the fixed dates of the liturgical year.
   2. (capitalized, often, Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of synaxarium, a hagiography covering similar material equivalent to a Catholic martyrology.
   3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) Synonym of kalendar, any monthly list of saints' days or liturgical readings.
   4. (capitalized, often) A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.
   5. (capitalized, often, uncommon) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.

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