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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. f. 124^v His historiologie of Euarchus kingly excellencies.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Historiology, the knowledge and telling of old Histories.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War To Rdr. sig. A2 'Tis strange to me, that they..that do excell Their Equals in Historiology, Speak not of Mansoul's wars, but let them lye Dead, like old Fables.

?1769 C. H. Wilmot tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iv. xix. 374 This species of reading would be worthy your talent, and would render you learned in historiology.

1780 C. Egerton New Hist. Eng. Introd. p. vii Historiology is the study of history, or the mode of acquiring the knowledge of it as a science.

1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 70 285 Erudition has been divided by a German professor into glossology, bibliology, and historiology.

1895 E. Hubbard Little Journeys to Homes of Good Men & Great x. 263 Charles Dickens wrote A Child's History of England for his children—none of whom have proven their proficiency in historiology.

1908 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 427/1 By historiology, criticism, or mere humanistic eclecticism,..I was fain to gather out of the dust of the crowded English seventeenth century ‘this or that down-trodden name’.

1991 Mod. Philol. 88 328 Gibbon may have been changed by the writing of history, and the orientation of his historiology may have changed as well.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 175 Where that eminent Prelate Umpires all Historiological Emulosities with amicable equity.

1854 Biblical Repertory Apr. 278 The earliest commentators upon the Revelation, set out with the presumption, that..it must contain a summary of Church History, on to the end of time. They may,..be denominated the historiological school.

1920 L. Wiener Contributions towards Hist. of Arabico-Gothic Culture III. viii. 300 In the present article, we shall undertake a historiological study of four musical terms..first found in writings attributed to Venantius Fortunatus.

2006 Jrnl. Middle East Women's Stud. 2 26 Contemporary literary and historiological inquiry problematizes the notion of ‘objective’ histories.