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Webster 1913 Edition
Beadroll
Bead′rollˊ
,Noun.
(R. C. Ch.)
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 filed. 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.
Definition 2024
beadroll
beadroll
English
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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.2:
- Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
- 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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.2: