Saint Thomas of Mingeborough

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hagi'ography  n., pl. -phies   1. the writing of the lives of the saints.
2. biography of the saints   3. any biography that idealizes or idolizes its
subject.


hagi'ographer  or  hagi'ographist  n.   1. a person who writes about the
lives of the saints   2. one of the writers of the Hagiographa.


Hagi'ographa  n.   the third of the three main parts into which the books of
the Old Testament are divided in Jewish tradition (the other two being the
Law and the Prophets), comprising Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Song of
Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah,
Chronicles, and the Story of Byron the Bulb. Also called: Writings.


              (from Collins English dictionary)


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