martyrology

[Gr. martyr (gen it. mar tyros ) = a witne , a martyr, and logos a discourse, a treatise.] Ecclesiol. & Church Hist.: A list of martyrs and other saints, with brief notices of their life and death, together with the mysteries of religion, such as the Incarnation, the Trinity, ., commemorated on each day of the year. It is simply a calendar, amplified by short notices of the subject of each feast. In the religious orders of the Roman Church it is read at Prime. It was formerly, and in some orders is still, read in the monastic chapter, and not in choir. "He who had a genius for art might illuminate a mar tyrology."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. i. *mar'-tyr-ship, s. [Eng. martyr; -ship .) The quality or state of being a martyr; martyrdom. "[These] now will willingly allow martyr ship to those from whom they wholly withheld, or grudgingly gave it before."-Fuller: General Worthies, ch. iii. †mar'-tyr-ý, s . (For etym. and def., see extract.] "The oratory or altar, erected over the tomb of a martyr, was anciently denominated either a Martyry , from the Greek Martyr i on confe ion or Memorial, be cause built to do honour to his memory."- Rock: Hierur gia, p. 279.