Definition of history

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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

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Organogenesis :: Organogenesis (n.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny..
Cetology :: Cetology (n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Organophyly :: Organophyly (n.) The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly..
Orismology :: Orismology (n.) That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history..
Morphophyly :: Morphophyly (n.) The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions..
Historionomer :: Historionomer (n.) One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
Recusant :: Recusant (a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord..
Ecclesiastical :: Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts..
Historicize :: Historicize (v. t.) To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.
Mediaevalist :: Mediaevalist (n.) One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages..
Eventful :: Eventful (a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life..
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..
Ontogeny :: Ontogeny (n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny..
Age :: Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
Helminthology :: Helminthology (n.) The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms..
Archaean :: Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary..
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..
Phylogenetic :: Phylogenetic (a.) Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism..
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