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historify, v.|hɪˈstɒrɪfaɪ|
[f. L. historia history + -fy.]
1. trans. To relate the history of; to record or celebrate in history.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxvi. ii, Thy conquest meete to be historified. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 295 The third time..wherein matters have been more truly historified, and may therefore be beleeved. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Tombs in Abbey, That Church which you have so worthily historified. 1884A. A. Putnam 10 Years Police Judge v. 28 In one of the years of the ten which this volume historifies.
2. absol. To write history; to narrate, relate.
1614Earl Stirling Domes-day ii. (R.), I must historifie, and not divine. 1635Heywood Hierarch. ii. 75 As th' author doth of him historifie. 1802Southey Lett. (1856) I. 201, I have been historifying successfully.
†3. trans. To decorate with figures: cf. historiated. Obs.
1633Wotton in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 465 Some fine historified Table Cloth for a Banquet. |