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s, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. But wise through time, and narrative with age. Pope.

In the style of narration.

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative. Johnson.

y particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supp…

Unpublished narratives. Burke.

A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

gated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.

A narrative of events; a history; a record.

A short narrative or tale, esp. one dealing with surprising or marvelous events.

A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.

A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

ate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail.…

troduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.

so, the body of persons making such excursion. The expedition miserably failed. Prescott. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

y of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. It is a faithful saying. 2 Tim. ii. 11. The Faithful, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.