The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hagiologist \Ha`gi*ol"o*gist\ (-[-o]*j[i^]st), n.
One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives
of the saints; a hagiographer.
--Tylor.
Hagiologists have related it without scruple.
--Southey.
Wiktionary
n. A writer on the life of the saints; a hagiographer.
WordNet
n. the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography [syn: hagiographer, hagiographist]
Usage examples of "hagiologist".
English Roman Catholic priest and hagiologist, was born in Northampton on the 24th of October 1710.
In amongst the sculpted grotesqueries and outcroppings fluttered the gonfalons, ensigns, and bannerets of a hundred dozen sects and cults, but one would have to be a hagiologist to be able to identify what each represented.
He has his own hagiologists, and a couple borrowed from Outtime Religious Institute.
The usual fate for Wilgefortis, among the more conservative hagiologists, was dismissal as an ignorant peasant misunderstanding of one of the many paintings of the Holy Face of Lucca, in which a long-haired and bearded figure in a long robe hangs from a cross.