“hagiographer”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

hagiographer

释义

hagiographer|hægɪˈɒgrəfə(r)|
[f. med.L. hagiograph-us, (f. Gr. ἅγιος holy, saint + -γραϕος writing, writer; cf. prec.) + -er¹.]
1. A sacred writer; spec. one of the writers of the Hagiographa.
1656Blount Glossogr., Hagiographer, he that writes holy things [citing Raleigh].1703Whitby Paraphr. N.T. Gen. Pref. 5 They were hagiographers, who are supposed to be left to the use of their own words.1805Edin. Rev. VII. 95 The Jews..ranked him [Daniel] only among the number of their hagiographers.
2. A writer of saints' lives; a hagiologist.
1849Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) I. 91 Which chronicle..has alway been held in much esteem by the hagiographers.1864J. H. Newman Apol. App. 36 [He] by no means assumes that he is an historian because he is a hagiographer.1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 390.

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