beadroll
English
Etymology
From bead + roll.
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.
- Foreign Quarterly Review
- It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.2: