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historian, n. (a.)|hɪˈstɔərɪən|
Also 6 -ien.
[a. F. historien (in OF. also adj.), f. L. historia history: see -an.]
1. A writer or author of a history; esp. one who produces a work of history in the higher sense, as distinguished from the simple annalist or chronicler of events, or from the mere compiler of a historical narrative.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xxiv, Quintus Fabius for this qualitie is soueraignely extolled amonge historiens. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 25 The Historian [sayth] what men haue done. 1589J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 15 There are.. other amonge the Historians, giltie of greater lies. 1663Cowley Verses Sev. Occas., Royal Soc. ix, And ne'r did Fortune better yet Th' Historian to the Story fit. 1769Junius Lett. xii. 55 It is the Historian's office to punish, though he cannot correct. 1873Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. ii. ix. 308 Gibbon is before all things the historian of the transition from the Roman world to the world of modern Europe. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §4. 38 Baeda was at once the founder of mediaeval history and the first English historian. 1879Gairdner Early Chron. Eng. ii. 77 He [William of Malmes.] is a genuine historian, not a dry compiler of annals like the writers who preceded him. 1884Freeman Methods Hist. Study (1886) 33 The man [Polybios] who looked at his own age with the eyes of an historian of all ages.
†2. One who relates a narrative or tale; a story-teller; in quot. 1603 rendering Gr. περιηγητής ‘local guide, cicerone’. Obs.
1586Young tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 202 b, You are but a simple Historian for ministring of mirth. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1194 Our discoursing Historians and expositours shewed us the place, where sometimes stood the obelisks of iron. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 7 What thanks sufficient..have I to render thee, Divine Hystorian.
3. One versed in history. rare.
c1645Howell Lett. (1655) IV. xi. 29 Not to be an Historian, that is, not to know what Forren Nations and our Forefathers did, ‘Hoc est semper esse Puer’, as Cicero hath it. 1665Evelyn Corr. 21 June, What your Lordship's curiosity will desire to dip into, to emerge a complete historian.
†B. adj. Relating to or founded on history; historical. Obs. rare.
1632Lithgow Trav. Author to Bk. B iv b, Go lively charg'd with stout Historian Faith, And trample downe base Crittickes in the Dust.
Hence hiˈstorianess, a female historian. rare.
1837New Monthly Mag. XLIX. 597 Mrs. Macauley, the historianess, married his brother. a1839L. E. Landon in L. Blanchard Life (1855) I. 48 She is a great historianess, a most charming delightful woman. |