01 n. A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; he…
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A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.(R. C. Ch.)“On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.” — Spenser.“It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.” — Quart. Rev.