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History
HIS'TORY, n. [L. historia; Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry.]
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, etc. 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.
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Abelians Abelites Abelonians Abridge Acacians Accessory Acephalous Acorn Acorus Act Adamites Adessenarians Adjunct Aerians Agonist Agrippinians Allegorize Allegory Alogians Alveole Amazon Amphibiology Amphictyons Amyraldism Anecdote Angelites Animal Annals Anomeans Anthropologist Anthropology Antiquary Antiquity Apollinarians Appellant Archimandrite Archontics Array Arrayer Arthrodia Assimilation Aurelia Azymite Babylonics Backwards Bethlemite Bibliographer Bibliographic Bibliography Biographer Biographic Biography Blacksea Borrelists Botany Centurist Century Cetologist Cetology Charact Charon Chimera Chroastaces Chronicle Chronology Church-history Circumcellion Club Conchologist Concord Consign Contain Continency Contradict Corcelet Council Credible Creep Crested Cyclops Cynics Damianists Demoniacs Dendrology Dip Disabuse Dramatize Ecclesiastic Echinus Echo Eloquent Embezzlement Emblem Entomology Epitomize Epoch Epopee Erpetologist Erpetology Erudition Evangelist Eventful Exodus Extant Extravagants Filament Flint Gabrielites Genealogize Genealogy General Genesis Genius Genuineness Genus Geognosy Gorgonean Gospel Griffon Haruspice Helminthologic Helminthologist Helminthology Herpetologist Herpetology Hieroglyphically Historian Historic Historically Historied Historify Historiographer Historiology History Holyday Hydra Improvement Include Invention Judge Justice Kingdom Labor Laver Lengthy Lichenography Life Literary Literature Lithology Logic Maim Martyrology Match Mazology Memoir Memorial Miter Mythologize Narrate Narration Natural Naturalist Nectar Nibiliary Novatian Olympiad Ophiologist Ophiology Origin Ornithologist Oryctography Osculatory Page Period Personage Phalanx Phenomenology Philologist Philology Physics Plaice Preface Pretender Pretorian Priscillianist Profane Prophecy Pseudo-tinea Pupa Pyrology Quietism Quindecemvir Read Recusant Reproduction Restore Roll Rota Rudiment Sacred Saturnian Scotch Scrap Scribe Scutage Semi-arian Semi-pelagian Sequel Series Settlement Shale Shipment Station Storied Story Striae Stylite Sympathy Synneurosis Table Take Terminist Terminology Transaction Trave Trivial Trochite True Truth Turban-shell Type Typolite Umber Variety Veracity Vermeology Verse Volcanist Voluminous Volute Wrote Zoologist Zoology Zoophyte Zoophytology
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