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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.

al 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.

cter or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton.

The condition, character, or practice of an impostor. Milton.

To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who invests.

See Varnpligtige.

A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect estab…

The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.

To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow.

The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

To overstock. Sir. M. Hale.