单词 | historiograph |
释义 | historiographn. rare. = historiographer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian > official historiographc1450 story writer?c1475 historiographer1555 c1450 (?c1425) E. Hull tr. Seven Psalms (1995) 54 To hym sorow, peyne and pestylence a-boue any mesure, so as historiograffys tellyth of þe bateyle that he had a-mong his awne. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. ii. 34 Poule the historiagraph [Fr. hystoriographe, L. historicus] of the lombardes. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 6 As wryteth that aunciaunt historiograph Josephus. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lvii. f. 90v Theopompus the historiograph sayth after Hermogenes, that Silenas shewed king Midas, that there was an other world and globe of earth than this which we are in. 1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. ii. i. 88 It was Architecture her self which was here the Historiograph of this new kind of History. 1668 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Idea Perfection Painting 117 The bounds may be transgress'd, as appears by our Historiograph Vasari, who without any Wit or Discretion..has so confounded the order of Times, and Things. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §132 397 One might expect from an Historiograph a plain, honest, and full Narration of the Fact. 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 261/2 He did not forget to send an army of historiographs whose duty was to recount his glory. 1883 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 37 79 The historiograph must have closely examined and sifted the gathered and ordered material. 1933 Isis 19 93 Polybius, historiograph of the Punic wars, remarks that most people measure the size of towns or camps by their perimeter. 1998 B.-J. Koops Crypto Controv. (1999) 33 The historiograph of cryptography,..opens his account nearly 4,000 years ago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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