beadroll

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beadroll - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Beadroll \Bead"roll`\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
     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.
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           On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.
                                                    --Spenser.
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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.            --Quart. Rev.
     [1913 Webster] Beadsman