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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.

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.

The histronic art; stageplaying. W. Black.

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

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

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

See Acolythist.

An acolyte. [Obs.]

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

A fabled serpent with a head at each end, moving either way. Milton.