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<h1>Historize</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His"to*rize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>History</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His"to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Histories</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L.<ets>historia</ets>, Gr. <grk>'istori`a</grk> history, information, inquiry, fr. <grk>'istwr</grk>, <grk>"istwr</grk>, knowing, learned, from the root of <?/ to know; akin to E. <ets>wit</ets>. See <er>Wit</er>, and cf. <er>Story</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, the <ex>history</ex> of a patient's case; the <ex>history</ex> of a legislative bill.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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 <i>romance</i>; -- distinguished also from <i>annals</i>, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from <i>biography</i>, which is the record of an individual's life; and from <i>memoir</i>, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.</def>

<blockquote><b>Histories</b> are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. <i>Carlyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or <b>history</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What <b>histories</b> of toil could I declare! <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>History piece</col>, <cd>a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action.</cd> -- <col>Natural history</col>, <cd>a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Chronicle; annals; relation; narration.</syn> <usage> -- <er>History</er>, <er>Chronicle</er>, <er>Annals</er>. <i>History</i> 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 <i>chronicle</i> is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. <i>Annals</i> are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license <i>annals</i> is sometimes used for <i>history</i>.</usage>

<blockquote>Justly C\'91sar scorns the poet's lays; It is to <b>history</b> he trusts for praise. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>No more yet of this; For 't is a <b>chronicle</b> of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Many glorious examples in the <b>annals</b> of our religion. <i>Rogers.</i></blockquote>

<h1>History</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His"to*ry</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To narrate or record.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Histotomy</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His*tot"o*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ tissue + <?/ to cut.]</ety> <def>The dissection of organic tissues.</def>

<h1>Histozyme</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His"to*zyme</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ tissue + <?/ leaven.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.</def>

<h1>Histrion</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw>His"tri*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>histrio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>histrion</ets>.]</ety> <def>A player.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Histrionic, Histrionical</h1> <Xpage=696>

<hw><hw>His`tri*on"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>His`tri*on"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>histrionicus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>histronique</ets>. See <er>Histrion</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>His`tri*on"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>Tainted with false and <b>histrionic</b> feeling. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>