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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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Numismatology :: Numismatology (n.) The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics..

Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning..

Ophiologist :: Ophiologist (n.) One versed in the natural history of serpents.

Neocosmic :: Neocosmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history..

Genius :: Genius (n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting..

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..

Life :: Life (n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton..

Helminthology :: Helminthology (n.) The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms..

Historian :: Historian (n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Historian :: Historian (n.) One versed or well informed in history.

Orientalism :: Orientalism (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc..

Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..

History :: 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..

Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people..

Standard :: Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors..

Diegesis :: Diegesis (n.) A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

Morphogeny :: Morphogeny (n.) History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished from physiogeny.

Adjunct :: Adjunct (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of History..

Stromb :: Stromatology (n.) The history of the formation of stratified rocks.