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▪ I. narrative, n.|ˈnærətɪv|
[f. as next: cf. obs. F. narratif, -ive in same sense.]
1. Sc. Law. That part of a deed or document which contains a statement of the relevant or essential facts (cf. quot. 1838).
1561Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 189 Ordanis the wordis (at the lest) to be haldin pro deleto in the said summondis sa oft as the samyn is thairin, viz. in the narrative and conclusion. 1574Ibid. II. 382 The haill narrative of the said supplicatioun [being] verefeit and understand to thair Lord⁓ships. 1681Stair Instit. i. x. §63. 148 He who craves regress had right when he changed any further then by the Narrative of the Excambion. a1768Erskine Inst. Law Scot. ii. iii. §22 (1773) 189 After the name and designation of the granter, follows that clause in the charter called the narrative, or recital. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 669 The narrative describes the granter and the person in whose favour the deed is granted, and states the cause of granting.
2. An account or narration; a history, tale, story, recital (of facts, etc.).
1566–7Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 496 He..wes fred and relevit..upoun celerat and wrangus narrative without satisfactioun. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 53 Therefore by this Narratiue you now vnderstand the state of the Question. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 36 Diodorus Siculus..gives a narrative of the original government of the Egyptians. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 537 Gushing tears the narrative confound. 1769Junius Lett. xxx. (1788) 160 He shall find me ready to maintain the truth of my narrative. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 22 We shall now state a few particulars..to prepare him for the circumstances of our narrative. 1895J. H. Round in Bookman Oct. 25/2 This history..is..a straightforward, readable narrative.
3. (Without article.) The practice or act of narrating; something to narrate.
1748Chesterfield Lett. cxxxiv. (1872) I. 246 To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. 1778F. Burney Evelina lx, What have I to write? Narrative does not offer, nor does a lively imagination supply the deficiency. 1781Cowper Conversat. 217 The path of narrative with care pursue.
▪ II. narrative, a.|ˈnærətɪv|
[ad. L. narrātīv-us, -a, -um, f. narrāt-: see narrate v. and -ive, and cf. F. narratif, -ive (15th c.).]
1. That narrates or recounts; occupied or concerned with, having the character of, narration; narrative line, a consecutively developed story. Also in Painting.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iv. §3 The division of poesy which is aptest in the propriety thereof..is into poesy narrative, representative, and allusive. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 195 The representation of divine things by some sensible images or some narrative voice must needs be in them both. 1712Addison Spect. No. 297 ⁋6 The Paradise Lost is an Epic or a Narrative Poem. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 188 ⁋5 No style of conversation is more extensively acceptable than the narrative. 1844L. Hunt Imag. & Fancy 20 The greatest of all narrative writers. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. Pref., A narrative history of the countries included in the Romano-Germanic Empire. 1902R. Fry Let. 10 Oct. (1972) I. 196 Already he has Giovanni Bellini's farmito colours..and he has too the pure narrative style..of the great Venetians. 1962R. G. Haggar Dict. Art Terms 221/1 Tissot painted admirable narrative pictures. 1962Listener 22 Feb. 335/2 That rich outpouring of ‘narrative’ painting which began in England with the Bayeux tapestry, continued through the missals and Books of Hours, to be picked up again by Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray. 1962Times 1 Nov. 8/4 Supporting this narrative line is a cross section of Alf's social background. 1972Guardian 16 Feb. 12/3, I pictured a story with every western cliche in it... Why have a straight narrative line when everybody knows the story?
2. Given to narration; garrulous, talkative.
1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 111 Mr. John Smith (called Narrative Smith). 1693Dryden Disc. Sat. Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 30 The tattling quality of age, which, as Sir William D'Avenant says, is always narrative. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 80 The Banquet done, the narrative old Man, Thus mild, the pleasing Conference began. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 109 Man is the tale of narrative old Time. 1826J. J. Conybeare Illust. Anglo-Sax. Poetry 68 The narrative old monarch proceeds to state that..Heribald was accidentally killed.
fig.1882Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 503 There are the decayed taverns..where stone and wood and lime are narrative of hoary antiquity.
Hence ˈnarratively adv., in a narrative manner; also, considered as a narrative.
1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. To Rdr., I have writ many things, rather narratively then affirmatively. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 28 The words of all Judicial Acts are written Narratively. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 518/2 Not in the way of argument, but narratively. 1863P. Davidson Pentateuch Vind. v. 154 The name Jehovah occurs in the first way or narratively, one hundred and sixteen times. 1883Ch. Times XXI. 905/3 The details are historically valuable, but narratively dry. |