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mily or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

A description, history, or explanation of phenomena. "The phenomenology of the mind." Sir W. Hamilton.

The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism. -- Phy*lo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny. Haeckel.

The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly. Haeckel.

ut) or support; -- often with up.plump up the pillows To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. Fuller.

specially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

hich is composite, or consists of two or more monogenetic ranges, each having had its own history of development. Dana.

nd effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature. "Pragmatic history." Sir W. Hamilton. "Pragmatic poetry." M. Arnold. Pragmatic sanction, a solemn ordinance or decree issued by the head or legislature of a state upon weighty matters; -- a term derived from the Byzantine empire. In European…

. The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.

Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.

A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29.

urpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend. I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England. Palfrey. To propose to one's self, to intend; to design.

ed but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic (#), a. -- Psy`cha*nal"y*sist (#), n.

scham. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. Macaulay.

dent clause. Chaucer. Did nothing purpose against the state. Shak. I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. Macaulay.

writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. Sir H. Wotton.

oincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.