‖ synaxarion, -ium Gr. Ch.
(sɪnækˈsɛərɪɒn, -ɪəm)
Pl. -ia. Also in anglicized form synaxary (sɪˈnæksərɪ).
[eccl. L., a. eccl. Gr. συναξάριον, f. σύναξις synaxis. Cf. F. synaxaire.]
An account of the life of a saint, read as a lesson in public worship; also, a collection of such accounts. So synaxarist (sɪˈnæksərɪst) [Gr. συναξαρίστης], the compiler of a synaxarion.
| 1850 Neale Eastern Ch., Gen. Introd. iv. iii. 838 note, Now follows the Synaxarion, or extracts from the Menology. Ibid. 890 The Synaxaria..are the abbreviated lections from the Menologion, extracted from the Menæa. 1853 Scrivener Collation Grk. MSS. Gospels p. xxx, There are scattered fragments of a Synaxarion at the end of the book. 1883 Schaff Hist. Chr. Ch., Apost. Chr. II. xii. §81. 645 In all the existing Greek and Syriac lectionaries or evangeliaries and synaxaries..which contain the Scripture reading lessons for the churches. 1908 J. R. Harris Side-Lights N.T. Research iv. (1909) 126 The Synaxarist explains this to mean that St. Thomas himself visited China. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 292/1 The Armenian synaxarium, called the synaxarium of Ter Israël. |