SAINT
ADJECTIVES
– HAGIOGRAPHIC pert. to the writing of saints’ lives …1819
– HAGIOLATROUS given to saint worship …1841
– HAGIOLOGIC pert. to hagiology …1826
– HAGIOLOGICAL pert. to hagiology …1872
– SANCTEOUS pert. to saints …1631 obs. rare
NOUNS
– HAGIARCHY the rule or order of saints …1826
– HAGIOGRAPHY the writing of the lives of saints; saints’ lives as a branch of literature or legend …1821
– HAGIOLATRY the worship of saints …1808
– HAGIOLOGY the literature that treats of the lives and legends of saints; by extension, also, of great men or heroes; a work on the lives and legends of the saints …1807
– HAGIOMANIA a mania for sainthood …1797
– HAGIOPHOBIA Bk1991 – an intense dislike for the saints and the holy
– HIEROLATRY Bk1991 – the worship of saints and of relics and other sacred objects
– SANCTILOGE a catalogue of saints, or a collection of saints’ lives …1526 obs. rare
– SANCTILOGY a catalogue of saints, or a collection of saints’ lives …1867 rare
NOUNS, PERSON
– HAGIOGRAPHER a writer of saints’ lives …1849
– HAGIOGRAPHIST a writer of saints’ lives …1817
– HAGIOLATER one who worships saints …1875
– HAGIOLOGIST one versed in the legends of saints; a writer of hagiology …1805
– SANCTICOLIST a worshipper of saints …1615
– SANCTOLOGIST the compiler of a ‘sanctology’, a catalogue of saints, or a collection of saints’ lives …1824