Definition of "beadroll" [bead•roll]

• A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for. (noun)
• A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series. (noun)

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• "“Charles Chattey” stood foremost on this black beadroll, and when this name was shouted by the stentorian lungs of one of the scourgers, a little duck-legged Londoner stood forth."
• ""On fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.""
• "More and more reluctantly Mr O'Connell will tell off the few lingering counters on his beadroll: but at length comes the last; after which he is left absolutely without resources for keeping the agitation alive, or producing any effect whatever."