||His`to*ri*ette" (?), n. [F., dim. of histoire a history.] Historical
||narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. Emerson.
His*tor"i*fy (?), v. t. [History + -fy.] To record in or as history.
[R.] Lamb.
Thy conquest meet to be historified.
Sir P. Sidney.
His*to`ri*og"ra*pher (hs*t`r*g"r*fr), n. [L. historiographus, Gr.
"istoriogra`fos; "istori`a history + gra`fein to write: cf. F.
historiographe.] An historian; a writer of history; especially, one
appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by
some governments upon historians of distinction.
His*to`ri*og"ra*pher*ship, n. The office of an historiographer.
Saintsbury.
His*to`ri*og"ra*phy (?), n. The art of employment of an
historiographer.
His*to`ri*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; history + -logy.] A discourse on
history. Cockeram.
His*to`ri*on"o*mer (?), n. [Gr. &?; history + &?; to distribute.] One
versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years
of races.
Lowell.
His"to*rize (?), v. t. To relate as history; to chronicle; to
historicize. [R.] Evelyn.
His"to*ry (?), n.; pl. 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 Wit, and cf. Story.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Carlyle.
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or
history.
Shak.
What histories of toil could I declare!
Pope.
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.
Justly CÊsar scorns the poet's lays; It is to history he trusts for
praise.
Pope.
No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a
relation for a breakfast.
Shak.
Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion.
Rogers.
His"to*ry, v. t. To narrate or record. [Obs.] Shak.
His*tot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; tissue + &?; to cut.] The dissection of
organic tissues.
His"to*zyme (?), n. [Gr. &?; tissue + &?; leaven.] (Physiol. Chem.) A
soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which
many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be
due.
His"tri*on (?), n. [L. histrio: cf. F. histrion.] A player. [R.] Pope.
{ His`tri*on"ic (?), His`tri*on"ic*al (?) }, a. [L. histrionicus: cf.
F. histrionique. See Histrion.] Of or relating to the stage or a
stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad
sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv.
Tainted with false and histrionic feeling.
De Quincey.
His`tri*on"i*cism (?), n. The histrionic art; stageplaying. W. Black.
His"tri*o*nism (?), n. Theatrical representation; acting; affectation.
Sir T. Browne.
His"tri*o*nize (?), v. t. To act; to represent on the stage, or
theatrically. Urquhart.
Hit (?), pron. It. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hit, 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hit (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n. Hitting.] [OE.
hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. &
Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch,
usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).