beadroll

noun 2

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noun

1

A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.

2

A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.

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.

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