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To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction. "To novelize history." Sir J. Herschel.

Pope. Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions. Keightley.

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went bef…

That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea. And to realities yield all her shows. Milton. My neck may be an idea to you, but it is reality to me. Beattie.

To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

fect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.

al." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances. These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, and chiefly written by nations of the north of Fr…

A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.

A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

ion given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

rfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

to many. Ps. lxxi. 7. Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

ny consideration. -- Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. -- To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!" Shak. -- World's end, the end, or most distant part, of the world; the r…

of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

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