Bollandist

[ bol-uhn-dist ]

noun

1. any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bollandist¹

1745–55; after Jean de Bolland; -ist

Example Sentences

But there is some mistake, as the Bollandist fathers have pointed out.

From Project Gutenberg

Take for instance the twenty-five thousand Lives of the Saints in the great Bollandist collection.

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If the enormous undertaking of the Bollandist editors had been completed, it would have contained the histories of 25,000 saints.

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This question is gone into fully; and the best authorities are quoted by the Bollandist.

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