beadroll

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounbeadroll (plural beadrolls)

plural beadrolls

  1. obsoleteA 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.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.

    1806, Abraham Hayward, “Vicissitudes of Family […] ”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 107

Origin

From bead + roll.

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APA

beadroll. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadroll

MLA

“beadroll.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadroll. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beadroll,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beadroll.

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