Definition of history

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History (n.) 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..

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Phylogeny :: Phylogeny (n.) The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally..
Premosaic :: Premosaic (a.) Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history..
Memory :: Memory (n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory..
Literature :: Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres..
Biographer :: Biographer (n.) One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch..
Hydrognosy :: Hydrognosy (n.) A treatise upon, or a history and description of, the water of the earth..
Variant :: Variant (n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word..
March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..
Prehistoric :: Prehistoric (a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man..
Liturgics :: Liturgics (n.) The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies..
Mystic :: Mystic (n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism..
Polemics :: Polemics (n.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy..
Sanskrit :: Sanskrit (n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda..
Historiographer :: Historiographer (n.) 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..
Neocosmic :: Neocosmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history..
History :: History (n.) 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, obse
Physiophyly :: Physiophyly (n.) The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly..
Grecian :: Grecian (n.) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history..
Herpetologist :: Herpetologist (n.) One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles..
Evangelical :: Evangelical (a.) Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history..
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