moirologist rare—1.
(mɔɪˈrɒlədʒɪst)
[f. late Gr. µοιρολόγος (corruptly written µυρολόγος, mod.Gr. µυριολόγος, whence myriologue), f. Gr. µοῖρα fate, death + -λόγος speaker, discourser: see -logist.]
A hired mourner in modern Greece.
| 1886 Q. Rev. July 215 There may be found traces, too, of Lethe..in the death ballads sung by the hired mourners... The moirologists will sing of the loneliness of the living, of the horrors of death [etc.]. |