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   History , n.; pl. Histories . [L. historia, Gr. ἰστορία history, information, inquiry, fr. ἰστωρ, ἱστωρ, knowing, learned, from the root of  to know; akin to E. wit. See Wit, and cf. Story.]
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   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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   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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   Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
   Carlyle.
   
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   For aught that I could ever read,
   Could ever hear by tale or history.
   Shak.
   
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   What histories of toil could I declare!
   Pope.
   
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   History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.
   Syn. -- Chronicle; annals; relation; narration.  -- History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history.
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   Justly Cæsar scorns the poet's lays;
   It is to history he trusts for praise.
   Pope.
   
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   No more yet of this;
   For 't is a chronicle of day by day,
   Not a relation for a breakfast.
   Shak.
   
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   Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion.
   Rogers.
   
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   History, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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