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The Muse who presided over history.

esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history."

materials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.

ed the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

fault. A man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, eccesiastical, and literary history of England. Macaulay.

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

eatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.

the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew.…

In general, the literature or history of the art.

Beheading. [R.] By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. Parliamentary History (1648).

One versed in the natural history of trees.

A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.

A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

r artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. J. Adams.

tangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

Relating to divinity or theology. Church history and other divine learning. South.

a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.