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Webster 1913 Edition
History
His′to-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Histories
(#)
. 1.
A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
as, the
history
of a patient’s case; the history
of a legislative bill.2.
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; – distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
Histories
are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Carlyle.
For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or
Could ever hear by tale or
history
. Shakespeare
What
histories
of toil could I declare! Pope.
Syn. – Chronicle; annals; relation; narration.
–
History
, Chronicle
, Annals
. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history. Justly Cæsar scorns the poet's lays;
It is to
It is to
history
he trusts for praise. Pope.
No more yet of this;
For 't is a
Not a relation for a breakfast.
For 't is a
chronicle
of day by day,Not a relation for a breakfast.
Shakespeare
Many glorious examples in the
annals
of our religion. Rogers.
His′to-ry
,Verb.
T.
To narrate or record.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
History
HIS'TORY
,Noun.
1.
An account of facts, particularly of facts respecting nations or states; a narration of events in the order in which they happened,with their causes and effects. History differs from annals. Annals relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order, without any observations of the annalist. History regards less strictly the arrangement of events under each year, and admits the observations of the writer. This distinction however is not always regarded with strictness.History is of different kinds, or treats of different subjects; as a history of government or political history; history of the christian church, or ecclesiastical history; history of war and conquests, or military history; history of law; history of commerce; history of the crusades, &c. In these and similar examples, history is written narrative or relation. What is the history of nations, but a narrative of the follies, crimes and miseries of man?
1.
Narration; verbal relation of facts or events; story. We listen with pleasure to the soldier or the seaman, giving a history of his adventures. What histories of toil could I declare?
2.
Knowledge of facts and events. History--is necessary to divines.
3.
Description; an account of things that exist; as natural history, which comprehends a description of the works of nature, particularly of animals, plants and minerals; a history of animals, or zoology; a history of plants.4.
An account of the origin, life and actions of an individual person. We say, we have a concise history of the prisoner in the testimony offered to the court.A formal written account of an individual's life, is called biography.