beadroll
- archaic a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
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To Jock himself it gave a keen momentary pang to see his own name only third in that beadroll of honour; but so it was.
Sir TomMrs. Oliphant
In our beadroll of the world's greatest writers I shall mention only one more, Goethe.
The Booklover and His BooksHarry Lyman Koopman