Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes or treats of the lives of the saints.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.

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  • noun A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.

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  • noun the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography

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Examples

  • BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773), English Roman Catholic priest and hagiologist, was born in Northampton on the 24th of October 1710.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Fathers, the hagiologist, and the bibliophile, his very name has almost sunk into oblivion; but to these savants he stands forth as the compiler of that marvellous collection of the Lives of the Saints, known as The

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • An Irish hagiologist, born in the Diocese of Meath, and studied in the Irish College, Paris, proceeding to the degree of S.T.D. Among the Franciscan Manuscripts in Dublin is an interesting tract sent by

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Want of funds alone prevented the publication of all the priceless material which Colgan had transcribed and prepared for press, and from the catalogue of the manuscripts found in his cell after his death, it is evident that the great Irish hagiologist had given a detailed account of the labours of Irish missionaries in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • In this convent lived John Cogan, the celebrated Irish hagiologist, author of the "Trias Thaumaturga" and of "Lives of the Irish Saints."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • I have given the charming story as _The Golden Legend_ tells it; but one may also hold the opinion, more acceptable to the orthodox hagiologist, that the dreadful monster was merely symbolical of sin.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • One of the actors whose name is Volpes, the one who did the listening father in the play about Rosina and the good young man, is employed by day in the cathedral, his department being the brass-work; he is therefore something of a hagiologist.

    Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • It is quite unauthentic and is too much in the manner of a hagiologist.

    The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884

  • Archbishop of Genoa and medieval hagiologist, born at Viraggio (now

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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