megalomartyr

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  1. A great or eminent martyr. Among those holy martyrs whom the Greeks honour with the title of Megalomartyrs (i.e. = Great Martyrs) as St. George, St. Pantaleon, &c. four are distinguished by them above the rest as principal patrons. Butler, Lives of the Primitive Fathers, II. 93. It was the Chief of the “Megalomartyrs,” or Dii Selecti, who had convoked this crowd of christian people. Is. Taylor Anc. Chr., II. 186.

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  1. Greek μέγας (μεγαλ-), great, + μάρτυρ, witness.
 

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