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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. "On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field." (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)
(01 Mar 1998)
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