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In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.

To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. [R.]

Related in history.

An historian. [Obs.]

Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story. Emerson.

To record in or as history. [R.] Lamb. Thy conquest meet to be historified. Sir P. Sidney.

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.

The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

The art of employment of an historiographer.

A discourse on history. Cockeram.

One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them. And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races. Lowell.

To relate as history; to chronicle; to historicize. [R.] Evelyn.

rmal 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.

The dissection of organic tissues.

A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, to the presence of which many normal decompositions and synthetical processes are supposed to be due.

A player. [R.] Pope.

trical; -- sometimes in a bad sense. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv. Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. De Quincey.

The histronic art; stageplaying. W. Black.

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically. Urquhart.