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Definition of Menaion

Menaion
Menaion Me*na"ion, n.; pl. Menaia (-y[*a]). [NL., from Gr. ? monthly.] (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. --Shipley.

Meaning of Menaion from wikipedia

- The Menaion (Gr****: Μηναῖον; Slavonic: Минїѧ, Miniya, "of the month") is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church containing the propers...
- of Argos for 54 years, from 1637 to 1583 BCE. According to the Orthodox Menaion, September 4 was the day that Moses saw the Land of Promise. Filler, Elad...
- The Great Menaion Reader (Russian: Великие Четьи-Минеи, romanized: Velikiye Chet’yi-Minei) is the official Russian Orthodox menologium, i.e., a collection...
- catalogs of lives of the saints: annual calendar catalogue, or menaion (in Gr****, μηναῖον, menaion means "monthly" (adj, neut), lit. "lunar"), biographies of...
- Bratko Menaion (Serbian: Братков минеј, romanized: Bratkov minej) is a 13th-century Serbian liturgical calendar book (menaion), written Serbian Orthodox...
- his mother's monastic names) are known because he dedicates the Great Menaion Reader to them. His secular name is thought to have been Mikhail. In the...
- collection of compositions by Constantinopolitan maistores, made after the menaion of sticherarion, could already grow, as one part of the sticherarion kalophonikon...
- composed over a given heirmos, but dedicated to a particular day of the menaion. Until the 11th century, the common book of hymns was the tropologion and...
- instance, the Festal Menaion contains only those portions of the Menaion that have to do with the Great Feasts; and the General Menaion, et cetera. Including...
- an early provenance. Since the 14th century the Akathist moved from the menaion to the moveable cycle of the triodion, and the custom established that...