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Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.

ummons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory. Milton.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

See Digester.

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

One who, or that which, distorts.

The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

Causing distortion.

To restore. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel. [Obs.]

A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail.

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

Historical. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds.

Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meanin…

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.]