Martyrium meaning

mär-tîr'ē-əm
A church or other edifice built at a site, especially a tomb, associated with a Christian martyr or saint.
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A tomb or other edifice erected in homage to a martyr.
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(rhetoric) Confirming something by referring to one's own experience.
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Origin of martyrium

  • Medieval Latin from Greek marturion from martus martur- martyr
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Ecclesiastical Latin martyrium, from Ancient Greek μαρτύριον (martyrion, “testimony").
    From Wiktionary

Martyrium Sentence Examples

  • We find traces of this in the 2nd half of the 2nd century, in the Martyrium Polycarpi (xviii.

  • The Church of Smyrna had early to explain its position in this matter with regard to St Polycarp: "We worship Christ, as the Son of God; as to the martyrs, we love them as the disciples and imitators of the Lord" (Martyrium Polycarpi, xvii.

  • He must have been born not later than the year 69, for on the day of his death (c. 155) he declared that he had served the Lord for eighty-six years (Martyrium, 9).

  • In that year appeared Waddington's Mdmoire sur la chronologie de la vie du rheteur Aelius Aristide, in which it was shown from a most acute combination of circumstances that the Quadratus whose name is mentioned in the Martyrium was proconsul of Asia in 155-156, and that consequently Polycarp was martyred on the 23rd of February 155.

  • Another legend, his Martyrium, makes him labour and suffer in Mysore.

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