hagiographic

hagio·graphic

of hagiography or the Hagiographa
idealizing its subject: said of a biography

Also hag·io·graph′i·cal

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Adjective

(comparative more hagiographic, superlative most hagiographic)

Of or pertaining to hagiography.

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This review contains studies in preparation for the continuation and remoulding of the Acta Sanctorum, inedited texts, dissertations, and, since 1892, a Bulletin des publications hagiographiques, containing criticisms of recent works on hagiographic questions.
In addition to this review, the Bollandists undertook the analysis of the hagiographic MSS.
They also prepared inventories of the hagiographic texts hitherto published, and of these there have appeared the Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca (1895), the Bibliotheca hagiographica latina (1899) and the Bibliotheca hagiographica Orientalis.
We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature.
The critical study of hagiographic remains, there would be no such science before the 17th century.

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