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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Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology..
Case :: Case (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury..
Historize :: Historize (v. t.) To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize.
Mastology :: Mastology (n.) The natural history of Mammalia.
Life :: Life (n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton..
Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art..
Hagiology :: Hagiology (n.) The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
Ophiology :: Ophiology (n.) That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents..
Era :: Era (n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Illustrate :: Illustrate (v. t.) To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance..
Synchronize :: Synchronize (v. t.) To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history..
Archaean :: Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
Tale :: Tale (v. i.) That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
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..
Heracleonite :: Heracleonite (n.) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church..
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..
Orismology :: Orismology (n.) That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
Ovology :: Ovology (n.) That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.
Lichenography :: Lichenography (n.) A description of lichens; the science which illustrates the natural history of lichens.
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