| History (history) |
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| His"to*ry |
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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 Wi |
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.
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.
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| History (history) |
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