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menology

 
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(mi-NOL-uh-jee)

noun
A calendar, especially one commemorating specific people.

Etymology
From Modern Latin menologium, from Late Greek menologion, from meno- (month) + -logy (account). It's the same meno that appears in menopause.]

Usage
"The state Department of Archives and History's 1994 calendar, available beginning this month, is the first in a series of menologies to honor Mississippi's writers." — Jack Elliott Jr.; Mississippi Writers Calendar a Talent Roll Call: The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Nov 28, 1993.


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a calendar of the feastdays of saints and martyrs (see also feria)
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IN BRIEF: Ecclesiastical calendar of festivals celebrated in honor of particular saints or martyrs.

 
 
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