Necrology Definition

nə-krŏlə-jē, nĕ-
necrologies
noun
necrologies
A list of people who have died within a certain period, as that in a newspaper.
Webster's New World
A death notice; obituary.
Webster's New World

(church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.

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Other Word Forms of Necrology

Noun

Singular:
necrology
Plural:
necrologies

Origin of Necrology

  • From necro- +"Ž -logy.

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Necrology Sentence Examples

  • See Ignacz Badeni, Necrology of Hugo Kollontaj (Pol.) (Cracow, 1819); Henryk Schmitt, Review of the Life and Works of Kollontaj (Pol.) (Lemberg, 1860); Wojciek Grochowski, "Life of Kollontaj" (Pol.) in Tygod Illus.

  • The oldest texts which refer to him are an 8th century necrology at Wiirzburg and the notice by Hrabanus Maurus in his martyrology.

  • Kilian's comrades, Coloman and Totman, were, according to the Wiirzburg necrology, respectively priest and deacon.

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