hagiography
(hægɪˈɒgrəfɪ)
[f. Gr. ἅγιο-ς holy + -γραϕια writing: see -graphy.]
† 1. = Hagiographa. Obs. rare.
| 1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 500 Ecclesiastes..perhaps was not really a part of the Hagiography. |
2. The writing of the lives of saints; saints' lives as a branch of literature or legend.
| 1821 Southey in Q. Rev. XXIV. 476 Such tales as these are common in Romish hagiography. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 4 In the hagiography..of the Mohammedan world. 1867 Max Müller Chips (1880) III. xiv. 312 A famous name in Cornish hagiography. |