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The written history of a person's life.

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

One who writers his own life or biography.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic sort." Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

[Cf. Biography.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]

Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. -- Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

ting or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography.

hich relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory. Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and…

A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.

A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.