Part 846

There warriors frowning in historic brass.

Pope.

Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. -- The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.

His*tor"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.

His*tor"i*cize (?), v. t. To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. [R.]

His"to*ried (?), a. Related in history.

His*to"ri*er (?), n. An historian. [Obs.]

||His`to*ri*ette" (?), n. [F., dim. of histoire a history.] Historical ||narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. Emerson.

His*tor"i*fy (?), v. t. [History + -fy.] To record in or as history. [R.] Lamb.

Thy conquest meet to be historified.

Sir P. Sidney.

His*to`ri*og"ra*pher (hs*t`r*g"r*fr), n. [L. historiographus, Gr. "istoriogra`fos; "istori`a history + gra`fein to write: cf. F. historiographe.] An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

His*to`ri*og"ra*pher*ship, n. The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

His*to`ri*og"ra*phy (?), n. The art of employment of an historiographer.

His*to`ri*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; history + -logy.] A discourse on history. Cockeram.

His*to`ri*on"o*mer (?), n. [Gr. &?; history + &?; to distribute.] One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.

And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races.

Lowell.

His"to*rize (?), v. t. To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize. [R.] Evelyn.

His"to*ry (?), n.; pl. Histories (#). [L. historia, Gr. 'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr, knowing, learned, from the root of &?; to know; akin to E. wit. See Wit, and cf. Story.]

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 history.

Shak.

What histories of toil could I declare!

Pope.